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July 9, 2026News

The 3-Level Problem: On the gap between health tracking and health understanding

LifeAhead Cofounder Nicholas Gentry, PhD coauthors a guest piece on the widening validation-marketing gap across femtech, healthtech, and wearables, and why clinical validation cannot be treated as a marketing checkbox.

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HITLAB Partners with LifeAhead for FDA-Ready Usability Validation

December 23, 2025HITLAB

HITLAB announces strategic partnership with LifeAhead to conduct physician-centered usability testing and prepare regulatory documentation for FDA submission.

Making the Value of Ovarian Health Visible - AI x Longevity Hackathon

October 30, 2025News

LifeAhead sponsored the AI x Longevity Hackathon to challenge teams to quantify the health and economic impact of early menopause. The winning project presents a powerful visualization of how improving ovarian health can benefit society.

Modeling the Extension of Ovarian Function - Human Reproduction Update

September 1, 2025Publication

Our scientific team reviews emerging therapies that slow follicle loss or add new follicles, and models how each would change the duration of ovarian function.

LifeAhead on the Boombostic Health Podcast

August 12, 2025Podcast

Dr Lizellen LaFollette and CEO, Dr Nicholas Gentry join Bradley Bostic to discuss how LifeAhead is turning breakthrough science into a cutting-edge tool.

On Modeling Ovarian Aging and Menopause Timing - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

June 28, 2025Publication

Our scientific team places models of ovarian aging in one mathematical framework, corrects an error in a recently published model of menopause timing, and derives the full distribution of menopause age.

Undermining Women's Health Research — Gambling with the Public's Health - New England Journal of Medicine

May 28, 2025Publication

LifeAhead Cofounder Josh Johnson coauthors NEJM piece on the systemic risks of scaling back women's health research funding.

A Mathematical Model of Ovarian Aging - Science Advances

January 12, 2024Publication

Our scientific team's research on how to model the decline of eggs in the ovarian reserve.

Recapitulating Human Ovarian Aging Using Random Walks - PeerJ

August 22, 2022Publication

Our scientific team's original random-walk model of ovarian aging, which reproduces both the loss of follicles over time and the population timing of natural menopause.