January 2005
Change of Plans, Ponce de Leon
This startup's prize is health, not youth.
By Corie Lok
Forget the fountain of youth. Although a bevy of recent scientific papers have described how to extend lab animals' life spans, the way to make money off their findings is not with drugs that prevent aging, but with ones that prevent the diseases of aging. At least that's what the founders of Sirtris Pharmaceuticals think. Spun out of Harvard University about six months ago, the company aims to translate antiaging research into medicines for diabetes.
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