Joe Betts-La Croix

Following an academic background at Harvard, MIT, and Caltech, inventing over 100 patents and applications, founding two prior companies with a combined 185 employees, spending 2 years as a part-time partner at Y Combinator, investing in and advising numerous biotechs, and publishing a Science paper in biophysics, Joe is now the CEO of Retro Biosciences, which uses high-throughput, high-dimensional approaches to develop therapies for diseases driven by the biology of aging.

Tuesday
May 06
How Breakthroughs in Cellular Reprogramming Could Transform Aging
4:30 PM

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5:15 PM

Epigenetic reprogramming has rapidly become the hottest area in longevity biotech, attracting unprecedented attention and billions in investment in just the last two years. Building on Shinya Yamanaka's Nobel Prize winning iPSC reprogramming, a new wave of biotech startups are now racing to extend the concept to therapeutically rejuvenate the cells in our bodies. This panel brings together the leading researchers and entrepreneurs of this field to explore the science and recent breakthroughs driving the excitement, the challenges of bringing these therapies to market, and the future of a field that could redefine what it means to age.

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