Party for Rejuvenation Research Partei für Verjüngungsforschung | |
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 Logo since 2024 | |
| Leader | Felix Werth |
| General Secretary | Moritz Pohl |
| Vice-Leader | Nicolai Kilian, Karl-Friedrich Harter |
| Federal Treasurer | Erik Krüger |
| Founded | 2015 |
| Headquarters | Berlin |
| Membership | 348[1] |
| Ideology | Single-issue politics |
| Colours | Black White Green Red |
| Bundestag | 0 / 630 |
| State Parliaments | 0 / 1,855 |
| Website | |
| verjuengungsforschung | |
TheParty for Rejuvenation Research (German:Partei für Verjüngungsforschung), formerly theParty for Biomedical Rejuvenation Research (German:Partei für schulmedizinische Verjüngungsforschung) and originally theParty for Health Research (German:Partei für Gesundheitsforschung), is asingle-issue political party in Germany that seeks to accelerate the development of medicine toreverse theaging process.
The Party for Rejuvenation Research is a single-issue political party in Germany founded in 2015 with the goal of accelerating the development ofregenerative medicine against aging, enabling people tolive indefinitely long healthy lives. According to the party, their purpose is to prevent the suffering caused by age-related disease and death. Besides that, the party also highlights the economic benefit of curing aging, as the costs forage-related illness and care would be eliminated.[2]
The party seeks to increase the number and size of pertinent research facilities, and to expand education and training of professionals in those fields.[2] The party also strives to raise public interest inrejuvenation research in order to cause large established parties to focus more on this subject.
The party adopts a neutral position on subjects that do not immediately pertain to rejuvenation research.
The incumbent party leader is biochemist Felix Werth from Berlin.[3]
As of July 2022, the party has regional branches in all 16 German states.[4]
The party has carried the nameParty for Health Research since its founding in 2015, but changed its name toParty for Biomedical Rejuvenation Research on 27 November 2022.[5]
On 11 October 2024, the party was renamed again toParty for Rejuvenation Research.[6]
As of 30 March 2021, the party has participated in eight state elections as well in the 2017 German federal election and the 2019 European Parliament election, achieving the following results:
| Election | List leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | EP Group |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Felix Werth | 70,869 | 0.19 (#23) | 0 / 96 | New | – |
| 2024 | 18,935 | 0.05 (#32) | 0 / 96 |  0 |