D-IAS Chair co-leading international project that raises DDK 450 million

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For more than a decade oldest-old Danes and Americans and their childrenhave been investigated in the Long Life Family Study. The project, in which DIAS Chair on Health Professor Kaare Christensen and his group from SDU are the only non-Americans among six partners, is aiming to understand why some people reach very high ages in good health. Now the researchers in the study has raised no less than 68 million dollars from NIH to continue the study and include the grandchildren of the oldest-old individuals.