这是个好消息。 Laura 和 Alex 继续寻找并资助长寿领域有前途的新初创企业,虽然 3500 万美元对于生物技术投资业务来说只是零花钱,但这笔帮助将推动早期长寿初创企业生态系统的发展。

亚历克斯·科尔维尔博士与劳拉·戴明联手推进长寿基金的使命,并领导对长寿科学登月计划的投资。

总部位于旧金山的age1是一家风险投资公司,旨在促进创始人领导的下一代长寿生物技术公司的发展,该公司今天成立,旨在建立一个由有远见者组成的社区,推进针对衰老和年龄相关疾病的新疗法、工具和技术。

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Laura Deming 在她的 Longevity.VC 网站上发表了一篇文章,介绍了她对该行业的看法及其优势:

长寿场将分三个阶段进行:

先驱者(2013 - 2023) :这十年内成立的公司表明,建立一家长寿公司可以获得财务回报,并为特定年龄相关疾病的患者提供合理的候选药物。

主导者(2023 - 2050) :我认为我们将看到该领域有史以来最优秀的创始人浪潮。他们将准备好适当的资源来建立这样的公司:1)将继续获得第一个批准的长寿药物(用于与年龄相关的疾病,到本世纪末正在进行看似成功的寿命试验)和2)进入主要生物技术联盟(估值超过 100 亿美元、经久不衰的制药公司),以及 3)扩大规模以改变 50 岁以上的人计划时间和精力的方式。

一般参与者(2050+) :开发长寿药物将与开发癌症药物一样明显和主流。该领域将获得更多的公共和私人资金。大型制药公司将拥有专门致力于长寿的团队。一些在市场上拥有药品的最大公司将是致力于延长人类寿命的公司,生物技术基金将定期对长寿公司进行调查和投资。

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The company’s Substack where they write about what they are doing as a company:

Why does it matter?


We’re at a historic inflection point in biotech. In the next decade, the preservation of a healthy life will go from a futuristic ideal to an actionable right.

In the original draft of The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that all humans “derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life , liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

This is our goal at age1: the preservation of healthy life, to enable a more dignified future globally for humans of all ages.

Some of the biggest human accomplishments progressed us towards this goal. Since the inception of antibiotics in the 1910s, they have extended the global life expectancy by 23 years. These now-taken-for-granted solutions combat the propensity of humans to develop infections constituting modern medicine, yet the thought of democratizing such therapeutics was once laughable. Similarly, we foresee a future with universal access to a healthy life enabled by longevity biotech.

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Wow, this is really exciting!! Excited to see what they end up doing.

New podcast:

Catalyzing moonshots in longevity biotech (Alex Colville, Age1)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/232eeWoYD5CwBmhkhZ4wKe

Another New Podcast with Alex Colville:

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