Healthy Aging

Narrowing the Longevity Gap in the Balkans

A new wave of biotech startups from the Balkans, the region with thelowest life expectancy in the EU, is revealing the secret of healthyageing is early detection and prevention of age-related diseases.

Milena Georgieva and Nikolay Vasev are co-founders of the Bulgarian biotech startup EPIX. AI. 
Milena Georgieva and Nikolay Vasev are co-founders of the Bulgarian biotech startup EPIX. AI. ANDREY ANDON

If you look at health data, Eastern Europe is a depressing place to spend the golden age of life. Europeans on average are living longer than ever before but Eastern Europeans are dying younger and in worse health than their peers in the West.