{"id":108996,"date":"2020-06-22T17:42:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T00:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/david-sinclair-seeks-100m-for-anti-aging-fight"},"modified":"2020-06-22T17:42:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T00:42:20","slug":"david-sinclair-seeks-100m-for-anti-aging-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/david-sinclair-seeks-100m-for-anti-aging-fight","title":{"rendered":"David Sinclair seeks \u00a3100m for anti-aging fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/david-sinclair-seeks-100m-for-anti-aging-fight2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the world\u2019s greatest anti-aging scientists continues his groundbreaking efforts. In the photo next to Dr David Sinclair, there is a fella who kind of looks like my friend, Dr Yuancheng Ryan Lu. Is that you? (Dr Lu has confirmed that he is indeed the scientist on the right. Dr Sinclair is on the left.) <\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t wait to see what they develop next!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Harvard scientist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longevity.technology\/exciting-times-our-exclusive-with-dr-david-sinclair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Sinclair<\/a> is one of Longevity\u2019s big hitters. Just a year after raising $50M in Series B financing, his company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifebiosciences.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Life Biosciences LLC<\/a> is looking for $100M to progress its anti-aging research [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/boston\/news\/2020\/06\/17\/harvard-professor-seeks-100m-for-tackle-aging.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Longevity. Technology: Life Biosciences had an original Series B goal of $25M; it doubled it. As NAD continues to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longevity.technology\/elysium-announces-epigenetic-aging-clinical-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">embed in the anti-aging supplement marketplace<\/a>, the company is looking to expand, with a range of subsidiaries under its Longevity umbrella. Although the company isn\u2019t spilling any secrets on its proposed clinical trials, we will be sure to keep a close eye on progress.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Life Biosciences, valued last year at approximately $500M, is built on Sinclair\u2019s experience as co-Director of the Paul F Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging at Harvard Medical School, as a genetics professor at Harvard University and on previously-founded companies Arc Bio, Genocea and Ovascience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world\u2019s greatest anti-aging scientists continues his groundbreaking efforts. In the photo next to Dr David Sinclair, there is a fella who kind of looks like my friend, Dr Yuancheng Ryan Lu. Is that you? (Dr Lu has confirmed that he is indeed the scientist on the right. Dr Sinclair is on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}