Study design and operations
Protocol design, consent and ethics frameworks, recruitment support, biospecimen workflows, follow-up scheduling, and project management.
About BioAge Connect
The work behind a study that holds up.
BioAge Connect designs and runs clinical intervention studies in healthy longevity, using biological age as an objective outcome measure.
01 — Why it exists
The endpoint changes the arithmetic.
The longevity field produces interventions faster than evidence that they work. That is not negligence; it is arithmetic. The endpoints that settle the question take decades to read, making many studies impractical before they begin.
Biological age brings the endpoint inside a window a study can cover. The work that follows is deliberately concrete: standardised sample handling, consistent preprocessing, reproducible scoring, and a place for results to accumulate over time. Without it, a study cannot be compared or a trusted reference cohort built.
That operational and measurement gap is what BioAge Connect works on.
02 — How we work
Three capabilities, one study lifecycle.
Biological age as an endpoint
EpiClock measures 12 validated epigenetic clocks across 8 dimensions of ageing, independently of the treating clinician.
Evidence and data
Longitudinal storage, comparison against 16 harmonised public studies, analysis, and publication-ready outputs.
03 — Where it leads
Build the studies before claiming the index.
Most validated biological age models were developed in non-Asian cohorts. A Singapore-calibrated reference requires standardised measurement across many sites over many years, and reference cohorts are built out of studies. That is the case for running the studies first.
On the wider stakes: biological age and the economics of ageing →
04 — Team
BioAge Connect
KZ
Kathy Zhang
Co-Founder
National University of Singapore
kathyzhang@nus.edu.sgContact
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