Methuselah Foundation Funding and Research Update
From the Methuselah Foundation blog: "We wanted to provide a view of this recent fundraising for all supporters of the Methuselah Foundation - and of our work on the Mprize for longevity science and Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) research - so we've pulled together a list of the high points, and an overview of where these new resources will be put to use. ... all of this wind was in our collective sails when Foundation chair Aubrey de Grey and SENS program director Jeff Hall met with Peter Thiel for the latest of our periodic updates. Peter was so pleased and excited by this very strong, broad show of support for longevity research that he decided on the spot to donate the full remaining balance of his $1,000,000 matching pledge for 2007! We're still doing the calculations, but it looks like this will add more than $750,000 in new funding, cash in hand and ready to be used in the laboratory, for the Foundation. So, what's the bottom line? $1,860,000 received or pledged within the last 60 days! ... these additional funds will more than double the amount that we can spend on SENS research in 2008 relative to 2007. We plan to put this money to work by increasing the manpower on both our existing SENS projects (LysoSENS and MitoSENS), and by initiating at least two new projects."
Link: http://blog.methuselahfoundation.org/2008/01/methuselah_foundation_fundrais_1.html