Quantum Healthy Longevity Innovation Mission
The Quantum Healthy Longevity Innovation Mission was launched in November 2022 with the National Innovation Centre for Ageing to create the world’s first test bed for health underpinned by growing understanding of the ‘exposome’ and links between health and climate.
Most health and wellbeing is determined by the exposome (wider determinants and environmental factors external to us) and how we interact with it, making this a wicked, complex problem but now tractable by harnessing AI, quantum computing and systems biology. The latest research is showing the importance of psychological and behavioural aspects of ageing, such as having hope, optimism and purpose, which are all linked to the underlying biology of the ageing process and health resilience across the lifecourse.
From 'cells to cities' these factors need to feed the thinking when designing interventions and environments for healthy longevity and human flourishing, which is at the heart of the Quantum Healthy Longevity Mission and City of Longevity Challenge that Collider Health and NICA are spearheading as major global efforts.
This mission was launched during Longevity Week, supported by Lord Bethell (launch on YouTube here, some media coverage can be accessed in Technology.Longevity here and Lifespan.io here), written up in Lancet Quantum Healthy Longevity for healthy people,planet, and growth and Prospect special edition for the Minister for the Future, Make the UK a living lab for mapping the exposome.
The mission is supported by Business for Health.
We need a new health investment paradigm, moving from ‘biotech 2.0’ model that funds molecules and drugs targeting individual diseases, to ‘health 3.0’ framework that invests in portfolio for heath creation, bringing ‘Health’ into ESG investment. We need the next generation Human Genome 2.0 project- the Human Exposome 3.0 mission
It’s time for bold, radical change. To improve health outcomes we need to tackle complex interacting drivers of health and disease, including lifestyle, socioeconomic factors and cumulative exposures to physical and social environments. We need understand environmental factors encompassed in the exposome n terms of helping humans not only to survive but to have the resilience to adapt to stress and to thrive in their ‘real world’.