I work on progressing the science of aging and age-related disease. I hope we can all live much longer and healthier than we do today.
Age-related diseases are awful. They are responsible for 2/3 of worldwide deaths every year. Think of dementia, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, frailty, and more. They’re coming for all of us. The next few decades will bring us amazing new technologies to help us fight back against these diseases. This will let us live healthier, longer, happier lives.
Biology, data, software and human ingenuity will power these breakthroughs. New techniques in genomics, gene editing and cellular reprogramming are unlocking possibilities. New ways of gathering biological data are causing exponential growth in data. This will eventually enable the engineering of human longevity. I believe we will ultimately cure age-related disease (and I hope to live long enough to see this).
This field has great opportunity for talented people. This includes biologists, software engineers, data scientists, project managers, business developers, entrepreneurs, investors and many more. If you want a good long-term career, biological data is up and to the right. What is more important than healthy, happy lives? What is more interesting and complex than life? How do we turn exponentially-growing biological data into healthier people?
I'm a co-founder at Junevity, a biotech working on targeting non-Yamanaka transcription factors for tissue-specific rejuvenation. Previously, I worked at UCSF in Bioinformatics. Before that, I spent 15 years in tech as a founder, product leader, and chief of staff.
Curious? Ideas? You can reach me at robcahill10@gmail.com.