The Party for Biomedical Rejuvenation Research (german: Partei für schulmedizinische Verjüngungsforschung; formerly ''Party for Health Research'' (german: Partei für Gesundheitsforschung)) is a single-issue political party in Germany that seeks to accelerate the development of medicine to reverse the

aging process Ageing ( BE) or aging ( AE) is the process of becoming older. The term refers mainly to humans, many other animals, and fungi, whereas for example, bacteria, perennial plants and some simple animals are potentially biologically immortal. In ...

Political positions

The Party for Biomedical Rejuvenation Research is a single-issue political party in Germany founded in 2015 with the goal of accelerating the development of

regenerative medicine Regenerative medicine deals with the "process of replacing, engineering or regenerating human or animal cells, tissues or organs to restore or establish normal function". This field holds the promise of engineering damaged tissues and organs by st ...

against aging, enabling people to live 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 for age-related illness and care would be eliminated. The party seeks to increase the number and size of pertinent research facilities, and to expand education and training of professionals in those fields. The party also strives to raise public interest in

rejuvenation Rejuvenation is a medical discipline focused on the practical reversal of the aging process. Rejuvenation is distinct from life extension. Life extension strategies often study the causes of aging and try to oppose those causes in order to slow ...

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.

Organization

The incumbent party leader is biochemist Felix Werth from Berlin. As of July 2022, the party has regional branches in all 16 German states.

Renaming

The party has carried the name ''Party for Health Research'' since its founding in 2015, but changed its name to ''Party for Biomedical Rejuvenation Research'' on 27 November 2022.

Elections

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: * 2016 Berlin state election: 0.5% * 2017 North Rhine-Westphalia state election: 0.1% *

2017 German federal election Federal elections were held in Germany on 24 September 2017 to elect the members of the 19th Bundestag. At stake were at least 598 seats in the Bundestag, as well as 111 overhang and leveling seats determined thereafter. The Christian Democr ...

: 0.1% * 2018 Bavarian state election: 0.1% * 2018 Hessian state election: 0.1% *

2019 European Parliament election The 2019 European Parliament election was held between 23 and 26 May 2019, the ninth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979. A total of 751 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) represent more than 512 million peop ...

: 0.2% *

2019 Saxony state election The 2019 Saxony state election was held on 1 September 2019 to elect the members of the 7th Landtag of Saxony. The outgoing government was a grand coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD) led by Minister- ...

: 0.5% *

2019 Thuringian state election The 2019 Thuringian state election was held on 27 October 2019 to elect the members of the 7th Landtag of Thuringia. The outgoing government was a coalition consisting of The Left (Germany), The Left, the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social ...

: 0.5% *

2020 Hamburg state election The 2020 Hamburg state election was held on 23 February 2020 to elect the members of the 22nd Hamburg Parliament. The outgoing government was a coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and The Greens led by First Mayor Peter Tschentscher. D ...

: 0.2% *

2021 Baden-Württemberg state election The 2021 Baden-Württemberg state election was held on 14 March 2021 to elect the 17th Landtag of Baden-Württemberg. The outgoing government was a coalition of Alliance 90/The Greens and the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, Christian Democr ...

: 0.0%; candidacy only in the electoral constituencies Stuttgart IV (0.4%) and Ulm (0.4%) *

2021 German federal election Federal elections were held in Germany on 26 September 2021 to elect the members of the 20th Bundestag. State elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern were also held. Incumbent chancellor Angela Merkel, first elected in 2005, chose not ...

: 0.1% * 2021 Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state election: 0,2 % *

2021 Berlin state election The 2021 Berlin state election was held on 26 September 2021 to elect the 19th Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin. The incumbent government was a coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), The Left, and The Greens led by Governing Mayor Michael M� ...

: 0,3 % *

2022 Saarland state election The Next Saarland state election will be held on 27 March 2022 to elect the 17th Landtag of Saarland. The current government is coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD) led by Minister-President Tobias ...

: 0,1 % *

2022 Schleswig-Holstein state election The 2022 Schleswig-Holstein state election was held on 8 May 2022 to elect the 20th Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein. The outgoing government was a coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), The Greens, and the Free Democratic Party (FDP), ...

: 0,1 % * 2022 North Rhine-Westphalia state election: 0,1 %

Literature

* Anne Küppers: Partei für Gesundheitsforschung (Gesundheitsforschung) In: Frank Decker, Viola Neu (Hrsg.): Handbuch der deutschen Parteien. 3. Auflage, Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-658-17995-3, S. 440–441.

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