The publication calculated that in 2016-2020 the Russian Scientific Fund (RNF) supported only seven projects in the field of fundamental medicine related to aging, and in 2021-2025 there were already 43.
Financing of such studies has also increased – respectively, from 21 million rubles. (1 rub. It is approximately 0.49 UAH) for all projects in the specified period up to 172 million rubles. That is, financing has increased by eight times.
For example, in 2025, the size of the grant from the RSF for each project related to aging is from 4 million rubles. up to 7 million rubles. For a year.
“Most of the aging projects were supported by the RSF in 2021-2023-during this period the fund’s support received 34 such applications,” writes the new newspaper Europe.
Its authors explain that the projects that are funded in the Russian Federation relate, in particular, the search for markers for predictions, aging will be normal or with pathologies; opportunities to prevent the development of Alzheimer's disease; The influence of stress on aging and brain function at this age.
The publication draws attention to the fact that the head of one of the projects – “Regulation of the processes of cell renewal in the body, the fundamental basis of the long -term preservation of the functional activity of organs and tissues, the health and active longevity of a person” – was Maria Vorontsova, who is called the daughter of Putin.
“The size of the grant under the program, the application for which Vorontsov submitted, is more than ordinary and can be up to 30 million rubles,” the journalists emphasized.
