{"id":1042613,"date":"2012-02-19T16:51:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T16:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/investing-in-longevity-science\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T16:58:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T20:58:48","slug":"investing-in-longevity-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/longevity-medicine\/investing-in-longevity-science.php","title":{"rendered":"Investing in Longevity Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/46342312\">CNBC<\/a> looks at some of the few figures in the investment community who support progress towards extended healthy lifespans: \"what if 'getting old' wasn't really 'getting old?' What if aging - at least the physical deteriorations that accompany it - was something that could be prevented? It's a lofty idea, but it's one that a new breed of biotech start-ups, scientists, and prominent investors are beginning to tackle. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightaging.org\/archives\/2010\/12\/peter-thiel-encourages-radical-philanthropy.php\">Peter Thiel is one of those investors<\/a>. ... Back in 2006, Thiel gave Cambridge anti-aging researcher <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aubrey_de_Grey\">Aubrey de Grey<\/a> $3.5 million under the auspices of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfoundation.org\">Methusaleh Foundation<\/a>, a non-profit headquartered in Springfield, Virgina, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mprize.org\">awards scientists who are working on life-extension therapies<\/a>. 'Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead,' Thiel told The New Yorker. In 2010, Thiel and his partners at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foundersfund.com\" \/>Founders Fund<\/a>, a Bay Area venture capital firm, invested $500,000 in Halcyon Molecular, a biotech start-up whose 28-year-old founder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightaging.org\/archives\/2011\/08\/a-profile-of-the-halcyon-molecular-founders.php\">has a 'dream to create a world free from cancer and aging.'<\/a> To understand the fund's investment, you have to appreciate what Founders Fund is - or, more specifically, what it is not. 'These are not guys who care about an extra million dollars,' says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foundersfund.com\/team\/brian-singerman\">Brian Singerman<\/a>, a partner at Founders Fund along with Thiel. 'These are guys who wanted to do something amazing for the world.' Singerman, an early employee at Google, [came] to Founders Fund after having what he describes as an 'epic six hour epic dinner with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sean_Parker\">Sean Parker<\/a>.' Equal parts brilliant and idealistic, Singerman is adamant that aging is a problem that can be solved. The fund's portfolio has invested in about 14 health and biotech companies all interested in solving life's ultimate problem: death. ... We have a company that's charged with curing all viral disease, we have a company that's charged with curing several types of cancer. These are not things that are incremental approaches. It's all fine and good to have a drug that extends life by a certain amount of months or makes living with a disease easier. That's not what we're looking for. We are not looking for incremental change. We are looking for absolute cures in anything we do.\"<\/p>\n<p><span>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/46342312\">http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/46342312<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymeme.org\/newsletter\/latest_rss_feed.cfm\">http:\/\/www.longevitymeme.org\/newsletter\/latest_rss_feed.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent article from CNBC looks at some of the few figures in the investment community who support progress towards extended healthy lifespans: \"what if 'getting old' wasn't really 'getting old?' What if aging - at least the physical deteriorations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/longevity-medicine\/investing-in-longevity-science.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longevity-medicine"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}