Robert Nelson is a very successful venture capitalist who does not want to die of cancer.
His company is the leading funder of Altos labs that is attempting to reprogramme cells to reverse aging.
Robert Nelsen’s latest and largest investment—several hundred million dollars, he says—is in a company attempting something even more ambitious than aiding health and longevity.
Altos Labs, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Diego, and Cambridge, U.K., is working on ways to rejuvenate cells to eliminate disease—an approach called epigenetic reprogramming. Nelsen and Altos’s founders believe they can turn the clock back on aging cells to restore functions characteristic of younger cells.
Arch is the largest institutional investor in Altos, which already has $3 billion of committed investments, likely making it the biotech industry’s best-funded startup on record.
Altos is attempting to hire 500 of the smartest scientists focused on reprogramming cells. They have a good shot at actually doing this.
source- WSJ Aug 20 2023
edited by Raymond Rupert