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I'm a budding biologist and aspiring entrepreneur. I've wanted to cure aging since I was eight. Now, with support from Peter Thiel's 20 Under 20 program, I'll be in Silicon Valley for the next two years developing ways to commercialize anti-aging research and extend the human healthspan. We'll see where this adventure takes me, but I'll try to chronicle the journey on this blog, What a Wonderful World. It'll be a mix of real-life updates and vignettes about the wonders of science. Shoot me an email at ldeming[dot]www[at]gmail.com

Saturday, May 21, 2011

What a Wonderful World: Intro


Welcome to a WWW (What a Wonderful World),

My name is Laura. I’m a budding biologist; I grew up working in a biology lab, and can’t imagine a better place to be.   

I’ll be in the California for the next two years, working, blogging, and learning in Silcon Valley. I’ll post more about my projects later, but for now all you need to know is that I’m interested in the financial side of science. I’d like to find better ways to fund the science projects that save lives.

This blog will be part science, part journal, and part experimental writing. It will evolve with time – but I’ll keep it entertaining. Thanks for visiting WWW. Hope you leave, just a bit more in love with the wonderful, infinite, jumble of rules and models we call ‘science’.

- Laura

5 comments:

  1. "I’d like to find better ways to fund the science projects that save lives."
    there are people who do precisely that Laura.
    see: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/25604/

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  2. Yup - the Sloan school is doing interesting work in the 'Science of Science' space. I'll be focusing more on the anti-aging science. What are the most-developed areas of biogerontology?

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  3. no idea, but check these folks:
    http://www.nber.org/aging.html

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  4. hey Laura,

    maybe you can try the SENS foundation too. www.sens.org. you worked at a bio lab since you were twelve? man, how did you get to do that? just extremely curious. our school won't even let us touch the microscope too much when we were twelve.

    feng
    Singapore/Malaysia

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  5. :...I've wanted to cure aging since I was eight..." What happened to you at eight that led you to this path?

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