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Scott: What are some of the biggest obstacles you think, from where were are now to 10, 20 years from now, to getting these these therapies in place? Is it just money? What sorts of things are standing in the way?
Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Ph.D.: One of the most heartening things about the history of my work in this field is that we have pretty much eliminated two of the big three challenges that I faced when I moved into gerontology from originally being a computer science researcher. The three challenges were, number one, come up with a really good, solid, detailed, concrete plan for actually defeating aging. Number two, identify the world's best people to work on it, the fastest working in the various relevant disciplines and get them interested in actually working on it, rather than working on something else that might be of less biomedical value, which is what they would be tending to do in the first place. And, number three, find the resources with which to actually pay these people to actual do the irreduceably expensive biological research that's required.
Number one happened in basically one eureka moment in 2001. I realized that actually repairing the accumulating damage of aging would be easier than slowing down the creation of that damage, which is what gerontologists had been focusing on until that time.
Number two, getting the professors on board, has basically been an ongoing process since before that time, actually, but going forward, but it's basically done. For every single area that we need really expert specialists to be enthusiastic about going on and doing this work, they are there, they exist. We have the most absolutely stellar research advisory board that you can see on the website, sens.org, and that will show you exactly how legitimate this science is, and how easy it's going to be with the resources to actually get work to happen at a speed only limited by science.
So, yes, absolutely, it's only one thing that we need. We need more resources to get this work to go faster.I will estimate, that if we were to have 50 million dollars a year rather than five, than we'd be going about three times faster, and that's an awful lot of lives to save.
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Dr. Aubrey de Grey discusses the research his team does to combat age-related conditions. He talks about the three steps his research center identified in the search for slowing or reversing aging.
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