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Working with older patients, she was curious about the intricate cellular systems that either preserved or destroyed their bodies. “How can we maintain biology,” she asks now, “with the same care with which we might maintain a priceless work of art?” In 2025, Maier helped open a new clinical trial center at National University of Singapore, where she is director of the Academy for Healthy Longevity, which will enable teams to run multiple long-term trials assessing the effects of supplements, exercise routines, and other lifestyle interventions for health span. Her groundbreaking body of clinical research investigating whether the various drugs and interventions that make mice live better, longer—including supplements like nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) and alpha-ketoglutarate (AKG)—translate into people has brought her to the forefront of longevity medicine worldwide. Maier hopes the brand-new, state-of-the-art center will help generate the evidence needed to give longevity medicine a solid scientific base, and train a new generation of doctors on the science of longevity. She notes the center “is now too small again, because we have too many trials—which is great.” In contrast to many other longevity studies, which tend to recruit people from the general population, Maier’s trials mainly enroll people whose biological age, measured by looking at age-linked alterations in various organs and tissues, is older than their chronological age. By doing this, she increases the chances that if a supplement, say, can help a subset of people, Maier and her will be able to see it in the results. “If somebody has very good vitamin D levels, which are optimal, why would I include that person in a vitamin D trial?” she says. This is part of her vision for producing individualized, precision-medicine plans for patients, so people can zero in on interventions that match their biology. “Aging is so heterogeneous,” she says. Telling everyone to take a given molecule is a little like giving everyone diagnosed with cancer the same chemotherapy, or handing out insulin regardless of diabetes status, she says. Maier’s PROMETHEUS trial, which investigated this tailored approach, involved specialized dietary and exercise advice, supplements, and cognitive behavioral therapy, among other interventions. An 8-week pilot protocol evaluating the effects on markers of muscle, cognitive, and immune function in 20 people produced “promising results.” Next, she and her team are planning a randomized controlled trial, which will allow the team to study whether the inventions have a beneficial effect on health over the course of a year. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collection/longevity-leaders/2026/andrea-maier/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collection/longevity-leaders/2026/andrea-maier/"},"headline":"Andrea Maier Wants to Solve Longevity's Evidence Problem","datePublished":"2026-08-20T13:01:12.293Z","dateModified":"2026-08-20T13:01:12.427Z","description":"Dr. Maier says the longevity field has no shortage of promising interventions— it's quality evidence that's in short supply.","url":"https://time.com/collection/longevity-leaders/2026/andrea-maier/","keywords":["Longevity","Longevity Leaders"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4c87e49f161650f/6a7dfad3453dba4e7eafcb48/Maier---NUS-Academy-for-Healthy-Longevity.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675%2Coffset-x0.00%2Coffset-y26.97&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Veronique Greenwood","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/veronique-greenwood/"}],"creator":"Veronique Greenwood","articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4c87e49f161650f/6a7dfad3453dba4e7eafcb48/Maier---NUS-Academy-for-Healthy-Longevity.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675%2Coffset-x0.00%2Coffset-y26.97&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/longevity/","name":"Longevity"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collection/longevity-leaders/2026/andrea-maier/","name":"Andrea Maier Wants to Solve Longevity's Evidence Problem"}}]}] ```