Vision

Longer Lives. Better Health. Lasting Impact.

The Dr. Alfred A. Kuehn Innovation Institute, we envisions a world where  human life is extended, enriched by wellness, and strengthened by purpose. It leverages advanced data analytical techniques and strategic data management to uncover opportunities that extend the healthy years of life.

Impact grows through collaboration via targeted grants, strategic investments, and partnerships that reflect commitment to evidence-based innovation and advancing wellness for all.

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Opportunities: Extending Lifespans Together

Progress begins where data informs action. The Dr. Alfred A. Kuehn Innovation Institute, collaborates with mission-driven individuals and organizations, who share our commitment to using advanced analytics to improve public health. Targeted grants and strategic investments, enable such partnerships to uncover meaningful insights, drive innovation, and work to extend the healthy years of life. Participate in building the future shaped by data and defined by wellness.

Gifts & Grants

AAK Institute provides grants to support initiatives, projects, and nonprofits that align with its mission to extend healthy years of life for opportunities that may arise. Grants are awarded to organizations and individuals whose work promotes health, and wellness to deliver productive measurable impact.

Strategic Impact Investments

Through targeted impact investment, the AAK Institute supports innovations of companies and transformative initiatives advancing healthspan technologies. The AAK Institute is actively looking to partnering with ventures that align meaningful, scalable change in human health outcomes.

Partnerships

Collaboration is central to AAK Institute’s approach. We partner with mission-driven organizations, health providers, and community leaders to amplify shared goals and maximize collective impact. Together, we can advance initiatives that extend the healthy years of life and transform human wellness for generations to come.

Our Impact: See the Mission in Action

Our mission lives through action. Through investments, grants and gifts, the AAK Institute is extending the healthy years of life. Explore the stories and initiatives that continue to shape a stronger, healthier future.

The Clear Thoughts Foundation is Dedicated to Seeing a World Free of Dementia

The Alfred A. Kuehn Innovation Institute made a grant to the Clear Thoughts Foundation in March of 2025. The Clear Thoughts Foundation is a Pittsburgh, PA-based nonprofit whose primary purpose is to raise funds to discover breakthrough drugs and novel treatments to stop the progression of and to eventually eliminate dementia.

Promoting Resilience of Body, Mind & Spirit for the Veteran and Military Community

In February 2025, the Alfred A. Kuehn Innovation Institute awarded a grant to Outdoor Immersion. Outdoor Immersion is a Pittsburgh, PA nonprofit Community Care Mission using outdoor activities to create connections of friendship to help US Veterans suffering from PTSD to rebuild resilience physically, mentally and spiritually.
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Investing in the Future: Extending Health Spans

Korion Health is a Pittsburgh based start-up led by Anna Li, an MD/PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Korion’s goal is to build tools that enable patients to access health screenings from the comfort of their homes in an affordable and easily accessible way.