The application period opens January 21, 2025 and closes March 4, 2025, at 11:59 pm EST.

The NAM Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award Competition offers $50,000 USD prizes to individuals or teams with bold, new, and potentially transformative ideas that aim to improve the physical, mental, or social health and well-being of people as they age.

The NAM strongly encourages individuals with diverse backgrounds, ideologies, and perspectives to apply. Ideas or projects that aim to reduce health disparities, promote health equity, combat ageism, or apply human-centered design principles to engage older adults in the work, are also of strong interest to the NAM.

Ideas with the potential to dramatically change health as we age—even if they’re high-risk—are encouraged in this unique competition. No preliminary data are required when submitting an idea. Applications may originate from any sector, field or combination of fields (e.g., biology, chemistry, medicine, engineering, behavioral and social sciences, technology, data science, and policy).