{"id":23444,"date":"2016-03-12T05:47:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T13:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/an-interview-with-the-major-mouse-testing-program-we-talk-longevity-advocacy-and-fast-tracking-progress"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:06:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:06:31","slug":"an-interview-with-the-major-mouse-testing-program-we-talk-longevity-advocacy-and-fast-tracking-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/an-interview-with-the-major-mouse-testing-program-we-talk-longevity-advocacy-and-fast-tracking-progress","title":{"rendered":"An Interview With The Major Mouse Testing Program: We Talk Longevity Advocacy And Fast Tracking Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-interview-with-the-major-mouse-testing-program-we-talk-longevity-advocacy-and-fast-tracking-progress.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Innovative new project the MMTP aims to fast forward translation from lab to clinic with rapid, parallel mice testing. We caught up with Steve Hill and Elena Milova from the MMTP team to discuss the program and why being pro-actively involved with longevity advocacy is so important.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the gap in the market you\u2019re aiming to fill and the major motivation behind the MMTP?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve<\/strong> \u2013 The bridge between basic research and taking it to clinical trials. People like The SENS Foundation are spinning a lot of plates doing the high risk, nitty gritty research that isn\u2019t profitable, but crowdfunding can get that done. We want to create a solid gold standard testing platform without the restrictions of government, where any team can come to us for parallel testing and halve development time. The problem with animal testing is there\u2019s this disconnect; it\u2019s not sexy science basically. A common response is let me know when it\u2019s available in humans, but it\u2019s not going to be! No animal data means no human testing, organizations like the FDA, NHS and EMA all insist on a battery of animal testing before human trials. Period. It\u2019s not sexy, it\u2019s not available in humans next week, but if MMTP or other projects don\u2019t get things done on mice for example, it\u2019s never going to get done. It doesn\u2019t matter if one theory turns out to be wrong, let\u2019s get stuck in and find out!<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longevityreporter.org\/blog\/2016\/3\/12\/an-interview-with-the-major-mouse-testing-program-talking-longevity-advocacy-and-fast-forwarding-progress\">http:\/\/www.longevityreporter.org\/blog\/2016\/3\/12\/an-interview...g-progress<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovative new project the MMTP aims to fast forward translation from lab to clinic with rapid, parallel mice testing. We caught up with Steve Hill and Elena Milova from the MMTP team to discuss the program and why being pro-actively involved with longevity advocacy is so important. What\u2019s the gap in the market you\u2019re aiming [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23444","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\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68052,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23444\/revisions\/68052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}