Norn Group’s mission is to maximize the probability that by 2060 we have interventions that will let a 60 year old live for another 60 years without a decline in health and function.
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Meet the Team
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Martin Borch Jensen
Founder, President
In addition to my work at Norn, I’m the founder and CSO of Gordian Biotechnology, the first in vivo therapeutic screening platform to radically improve drug development for complex diseases of aging. My focus is on developing technologies to interrogate the full network of aging processes inside living organisms. This includes multiplexed measurement of complex states, interpretable perturbations, and context-aware data models.
Previously, I was an academic working on a range of cellular mechanisms involved in aging: mitochondrial function, NAD metabolism, DNA damage signaling and other stress responses.
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Lada Nuzhna
Director of Impetus Grants
I used to spend lots of my time trying to understand the world by studying physics and chemistry… until I realized that my life would never be long enough to find answers I could be satisfied with. And so devoting my life to extending this time is the only thing that makes sense to me. My inspiration and drive come from the idea that we can potentially live forever.
Before dropping out to pursue my aging projects with the Thiel fellowship, I studied physics and computer science at Northwestern, mostly focusing on deep learning. Right now I run Impetus Grants to fund more breakthrough longevity science and work on an independent project in the field of epigenetics.
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Sufal Deb
Chief Of Staff
My research and love for bioacoustics made me wonder, "Why do we lose our senses and perception of our world as we age?" The journey to answer this question yielded more roadblocks, things that needed to be done first. I began translating and communicating progress in the field, building community, developing aging science education, and increasing accessibility for people to contribute to aging biotech.
Prior to my work today, I was a biologist, working on documenting gerontogenic processes in bats. I also tackled biotech bottlenecks in product, ops, and biz dev. You can find me today supporting all the programs at Norn to promote aging research.
Legacy Projects
Our Legacy Projects are an archive of past initiatives and sunsetted Norn Group programs.
Our archive below highlights their impact and contributions.