{"id":87373,"date":"2019-02-04T08:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T16:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/longevity-investor-network-member-spotlight-sebastian-aguiar"},"modified":"2019-02-04T08:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T16:22:24","slug":"longevity-investor-network-member-spotlight-sebastian-aguiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/longevity-investor-network-member-spotlight-sebastian-aguiar","title":{"rendered":"Longevity Investor Network Member Spotlight \u2013 Sebastian Aguiar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/longevity-investor-network-member-spotlight-sebastian-aguiar4.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Longevity Investor Network member Sebastian Aguiar discusses the rejuvenation biotechnology industry and bridging the gap between research and development.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/longevity-investor-network-member-spotlight-sebastian-aguiar2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/longevity-investor-network-member-spotlight-sebastian-aguiar2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"81\" \/><\/a>Sebastian Aguiar is a Venture Fellow at Apollo Ventures, an aging-focused venture capital fund and company builder that invests across Europe and the United States. He can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sebastianaguiar\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sebastianaguiar\/\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sebastianaguiar\/<\/a><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sebastian_gero\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sebastian_gero\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/sebastian_gero<\/a><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What initially attracted you to aging as a general discipline?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aging is already a solved problem\u2026 for cells. The germ line is immortal. Cancer cells are immortal as well. In fact, cellular immortality has been a solved problem for 3.5 billion years, since the dawn of life on Earth. It\u2019s just that the soma \u2013 all the cells other than the reproductive cells \u2013 are disposable.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/longevity-investor-network-member-spotlight-sebastian-aguiar\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/longevity-investor-network-membe...an-aguiar\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longevity Investor Network member Sebastian Aguiar discusses the rejuvenation biotechnology industry and bridging the gap between research and development. Sebastian Aguiar is a Venture Fellow at Apollo Ventures, an aging-focused venture capital fund and company builder that invests across Europe and the United States. He can be found at https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sebastianaguiar\/ and https:\/\/twitter.com\/sebastian_gero. What initially attracted [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,45,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-finance","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87373","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\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}