How long do dogs and cats actually live?
How can we use advances in science and technology to help pets live longer, healthier, more vital lives?
How can technology enhance and augment the abilities of companion animals?
The purpose of Project 25 is to increase longevity, improve quality of life, decrease disease and pain, and elevate the way we interact and communicate with our pets.
These are the basic questions that led me to create Project 25. By combining the exciting convergences in biology, medical technology, biogenomics, artificial intelligence, and computing, I foresee a time in the near future when dogs and cats live to age 25 without pain and illness and possess capabilities far beyond what we think of as "pets" today.
My goal is to gather the brightest minds in veterinary science, life extension research, and technology with the single goal of enhancing and extending the life expectancy and abilities of dogs and cats. The purpose of Project 25 is to improve quality of life, decrease disease and pain, and elevate the way we interact and communicate with our pets.
Why don't companion animals live longer?
For nearly 30 years as a practicing veterinarian, I've struggled with the question of why don't pets live longer? We're on the cusp of answering that question with exciting medical, technological, and lifestyle interventions that will extend the time we have with our beloved companion animals.
If you're interested in helping improve the wellbeing of dogs, cats, and people, join Project 25. We're looking for bold and ambitious veterinary healthcare providers, scientists, and technology experts to innovate and execute solutions for aging pets and life extension strategies for animals. We need experienced corporations and laboratories, tech startups, and garage tinkerers who have a passion for helping animals. 25-year old dog or cat? That's only a start. Just wait until we can communicate, collaborate, and coexist with animals in ways unimaginable but to the most creative thinkers.
Life extension is only the beginning...
We will soon be able to increase the time service, military, and police dogs can assist us. We will augment assistance animals' abilities through exoskeletons, wearable technologies, and onboard computing devices.
We will prevent disease, infections, and parasites through clever biogenomics and vaccines, transform diagnostic testing with next-gen noninvasive monitors. In the near future, we'll even crack the communication barrier between man and animal. We're going to need an entirely new dictionary.
If these sorts of challenges inspire you, Project 25 is for you. We will connect you with like-minded individuals and teams with complementary skill sets and companies who can turn these dreams into reality. Don't delay... 2025 is rapidly approaching.
Dr. Ernie Ward | Founder | North Carolina, USA | 2015
We Need Your Help
We are actively seeking entrepreneurs, corporate sponsors, and philanthropists interested in accelerating the advancement of life extension in dogs and cats. We are creating a coalition of cutting-edge experts and companies in the veterinary medical, technology, and biotech industries. If you would like to be a part of the most exciting transformation in the past 50,000 years of sharing our lives with companion animals, contact us here.
Current Projects
Nutritional Interventions and delivery systems
We are seeking simple nutritional and nutritional supplements to enhance and extend life expectancy and quality of life in dogs and cats, food-based medical and therapeutic delivery system
Diagnostic Tests and disease prediction
Inflammatory biomarkers, disease predictive assessments, disease monitoring tests, genetic markers, genomic analysis, data analytics to individualize lifestyle changes, medical recommendations and treatments
Wearable Technology and continuous physiological monitoring
Kinematic, electrophysiological, and noninvasive monitors for companion animals, transdermal glucometry, cortisol measurements, and salivary, hair, fecal and urine-based tests
Pharmaceutical Agents
Molecular compounds to combat systemic inflammation, treat and prevent diseases, and protect and prevent aging mechanisms
Vaccines
Vaccines against cancers, parasites, emerging viruses and bacteria, and bacteriophage-delivered DNA and other advanced vaccine technologies
Assistive and Augmentative Devices
Exoskeletons, limb stabilizers, movement enhancement, and other bionic or implantable devices to aid weakened, paralyzed, or debilitated animals
Service and Assistance Animal Enhancement
Novel devices, training tools, protective armor, and pharamcological agents, to enhance speed of training, duration of service, and overall sensory data acquisition and abilities of service animals
Human-Animal Communication and Empathetic Interfaces
Improve interspecies communication, identification of stress, anxiety, and relaxation, stressless training techniques, assessment of self-awareness, and more effective environmental enrichment
Metadata Acquisition and Analysis
Acquire and analyze biometric, disease prevalence, mortality, and population data using supercomputing, advanced algorithms, and artificial intelligence
