from their website... "The Methuselah Foundation is a non-profit 501c(3) organization of professional and non-professional volunteers who are dedicated to raising the awareness of the potential for near-term science-based aging interventions using modern technologies. With the map of the human genome and the power of supercomputers to guide them, competitors for monetary prizes sponsored by the Foundation are racing to be the first to develop real anti-aging therapies."

"The Methuselah Mouse Prize or Mprize is a growing $4.5 million prize started in 2003 to accelerate research into slowing and reversing cellular aging and breakdown in humans. It is governed by The Methuselah Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) volunteer organization whose other interests beside the Mprize include PR work for the acceptance of and interest in scientific anti-aging research and SENS-based research programs, all of which the foundation hopes will lead to a proposed Institute of Biomedical Gerontology. The Methuselah Foundation awards prizes to researchers who extend the lifespan of a mouse to unprecedented lengths. The prize is named after Methuselah, a patriarch in the Bible said to have reached 969 years of age. Former Cambridge biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey is the chief scientist of the project, and also the co-founder alongside David Gobel. The Mprize has been covered in many news sources, including the BBC and Fortune magazine. The prize broke through the $4 million USD barrier on December 11, 2006" Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah_Mouse_Prize Further information: http://www.methuselahfoundation.org/