The Multi-Million Dollar Mouse

By | September 21, 2006
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This is just fantastic news:

Peter A. Thiel, co-founder and former CEO of online payments system PayPal, and Founder and Managing Member of Clarium Capital Management, a San Francisco-based hedge fund, today announced his pledge of $3.5 Million to support scientific research into the alleviation and eventual reversal of the debilities caused by aging, to be conducted under the auspices of the Methuselah Foundation, a charity co-founded and Chaired by Dr. Aubrey de Grey.

Peter A. ThielMr. Thiel commented, “Rapid advances in biological science foretell of a treasure trove of discoveries this century, including dramatically improved health and longevity for all. I’m backing Dr. de Grey, because I believe that his revolutionary approach to aging research will accelerate this process, allowing many people alive today to enjoy radically longer and healthier lives for themselves and their loved ones.”

Hey, I guess that interview that Stephen and I did with Aubrey de Grey is really starting to pay off!

  • https://www.blog.speculist.com Stephen Gordon

    Yes, by all means Phil, let’s take credit for this!
    :-)

    This pledge is evidence that society is beginning to “get it”. It may sound fantastic to those who haven’t read up on SENS, but aging is just a set of engineering problems to be solved one by one. And we don’t have to have all problems solved before we see great benefits from partial answers to aging. As Aubrey de Grey has often suggested, each improvement in anti-aging medicine will allow many of us to live to see the next generation of anti-aging medicine – and on and on until the problem is solved completely.

    This is very exciting.