Welcome to SWAN
SWAN - Sustainable Wellbeing Across Lifespan
Sustainable Wellbeing Across Lifespan (SWAN) area aims to consolidate our world-leading research on healthy aging.
The proportion of people aged 65 and older will comprise over a third of the European population by 2040. SWAN combines molecular mechanistic, medical and population data expertise to generate an interdisciplinary team of excellence, aiming to reorient from managing chronic diseases to promoting “chronic health” and enhance healthy years in the population.
The Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland belonging to the Helsinki Institute of Life Science HiLIFE, and the Faculties of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Science and Social Sciences participate in this research area.
This profile building area is a part of PROFI8, and received funding for 2025–2031.
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SWAN Themes
To discover
metabolic mechanisms of aging related degenerative diseases
To find tools
to promote chronic healthspan
To prevent
Diseases by knowledge-based personalized approaches
To benefit society
by exploring population-level risks
SWAN
University of Helsinki:
Groundbreaking science from five faculties
