Alejandro Ocampo (@aocampox) 's Twitter Profile
Alejandro Ocampo

@aocampox

Scientist on a mission to make dogs live longer and healthier lives. Assistant Professor at @unil Co-Founder and CEO at @epiterna_

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This is one of the best arguments of why we need to treat people at old age, even if they are ā€œhealthyā€ or not clinically sick. I believe in 20 years we will look back and it will be hard to understand why we took so long to start! So obvious to some, but so hard to see for most.

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It is amusing that, for example, of the 2 approved treatments for age-related lung fibrosis (nintedanib and pirfenidone) - clinicians have no idea for how either of them work. And, in contrast, all the treatments for which we had ā€œrationaleā€ (eg Pamrevlumab) failed IPF trials

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Ora Biomedical, Inc. CEO Mitchell B Lee, PhD gave Matt Kaeberlein the lowdown on doing high-throughput longevity drug discovery using worms, robotics + AI, and the general public. He aims to create the world's largest and most robust longevity interventions database. youtu.be/Lon8J-GMw48

<a href="/OraBiomedical/">Ora Biomedical, Inc.</a> CEO <a href="/mitchellblee33/">Mitchell B Lee, PhD</a> gave <a href="/mkaeberlein/">Matt Kaeberlein</a> the lowdown on doing high-throughput longevity drug discovery using worms, robotics + AI, and the general public.

He aims to create the world's largest and most robust longevity interventions database.

youtu.be/Lon8J-GMw48
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Instead of a large animal (micešŸ€), we decided to investigate the effects of in vivo reprogramming in a smaller one (worms🪱). Happy with the results and excited about the new experiments that we are currently performing, which would take years in mice. The best is yet to come!

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I wonder if this is what the more radical AI drug discovery advocates (and their capital sources) are thinking about doing with all those human scientists who require so much care and feeding šŸ¤”

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The pleasure was mine. Thank you Longevity Biotech Fellowship for the invitation and Yuri Deigin for co-hosting this workshop. Yuri has been a great supporter of partial reprogramming from the early days and I am very happy to collaborate with him and follow his progress in the field!

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Yes, let’s create a new path to prevent functional decline and chronic diseases. It’s unfortunate that almost every longevity company is forced to go after a disease once it has occurred. It’s a distraction from their goal.

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Fantastic to finally meet and chat to partial reprogramming pioneer Alejandro Ocampo at the Systems Aging Gordon Research Conferences in Castelldefels, Spain. Many exciting studies and discussions on cellular rejuvenation and how to use it to develop safe and effective therapies.

Fantastic to finally meet and chat to partial reprogramming pioneer <a href="/aocampox/">Alejandro Ocampo</a> at the Systems Aging <a href="/GordonConf/">Gordon Research Conferences</a> in Castelldefels, Spain.

Many exciting studies and discussions on cellular rejuvenation and how to use it to develop safe and effective therapies.
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Here are 8 drugs that researchers have tested in the Interventions Testing Program. What do these have in common? Find out from Matt Kaeberlein: youtu.be/b4VaXqeli8c

Here are 8 drugs that researchers have tested in the Interventions Testing Program. What do these have in common?

Find out from <a href="/mkaeberlein/">Matt Kaeberlein</a>:

youtu.be/b4VaXqeli8c
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I’m going to have to file this one under ā€œwater is wetā€. Until extremely recently, FDA required ALL drugs to be tested in animals before they go to humans. And thereafter, they follow clinical trial failure rates writ large, which are 90-95%. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutical…

Lex Fridman (@lexfridman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Some days I feel like a loser. This is not a post asking for pity. I'm just being honest about the ups and downs of life, in case someone out there is feeling the same today and might read these words: we're in this together šŸ‘Š Keep going, keep trying, keep creating ā¤

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Great manuscript describing our work in C. elegans to identify novel molecules that can extend lifespan across species. Congratulations to Kevin Perez Grace Phelps and the rest of the team at EPITERNA šŸŖ±šŸš€

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New mouse model of premature aging based on direct induction of epigenetic dysregulation (loss of H3K9me3). Amazing age-associated phenotypes. First of its class and strongly supporting the "loss of heterochromatin" theory of aging. Aging Science News Aging Highlights Agingdoc🩺Dr David BarzilaišŸ””MD PhD MS MBA DipABLM