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How We Can Do Better Drug Discovery | Jack Scannell

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Gene Therapy for Aging and Longevity

I was just a couple weeks ago at a conference ARDD on uh aging and drug discovery in Copenhagen. Big pharma seems to be waking up to the reality that we need to be thinking about aging biology, he says. I would qualify your molecule as a bona fide gyro protective molecule there are really interesting new mechanism of action so maybe you can riff on some of those points yeah. You know this is not typically done because it takes a long time and people don't have ready access to pre-age mice but hopefully that will change. It's clear that lots of the animal work is looking at things like maximum lifespan or median lifespan extension right.

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