Live Longer World

#04 Dave Gobel, Founder & CEO of Methuselah Foundation | Longevity Funding, Regenerative Medicine & Longevity Escape Velocity

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Show Notes

My guest today is David Gobel who is the co-founder & CEO of the Methuselah foundation. Methuselah foundation has donated several million dollars for the advancement of longevity research and regenerative medicine. Their goal is to make make 90 the New 50 by 2030. I’m definitely rooting for that!

Dave was an entrepreneur before he decided to jump into the field of longevity. In my conversation with him, we discuss how he got excited about longevity research, companies funded by Methuselah including Oisin Biotechnologies, the concept of longevity escape velocity, his work with the super centenarian research foundation, how one can get involved in funding longevity companies and more.

I hope you enjoy the episode!

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Live Longer World Intro

1:30 David Gobel & Methuselah Foundation Intro

2:00 Dave's work at the TSA; Innovation at TSA

10:39 Methuselah Fund, How Dave got interested in Longevity & met Aubrey De Grey

19:14 The current healthcare system does not focus on preventative medicine; Aging is the biggest risk factor for all diseases

20:40 Methuselah Foundation mission - Making 90 the new 50 by 2030

26:56 Companies funded by Methuselah - Turnbio, Epigenetic reprogramming, Organovo 3D Tissue Printing

30: 18 Leucadia Therapeutics & working to erase Alzheimer's disease

37:20 Donating to Longevity

38:24 Investing in Longevity - how to get started

40:20 Vascular Tissue Challenge with NASA

43:05 Longevity Escape Velocity

47:28 Challenges in the Longevity Field (Money comes to winning solutions & ideas!)

51:55 Do we use money or does money use us?

57:00 Ending remarks

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