An Interview with Alex Zhavoronkov

The Life Extension Advocacy Foundation volunteers here interview Alex Zhavoronkov of Insilico Medicine. This company is focused on analysis of aging and discovery of drugs that might modestly slow aging rather than interventions after the SENS rejuvenation research model. If continuing along much the same road in the future, I predict that that the most important contribution to the field arising from this work will likely be a range of novel biomarkers to help determine the effectiveness of therapies that aim to treat aging. I have never been all that enthused by efforts to produce or repurpose drugs that tinker with the operation of metabolism to slightly slow aging, such as calorie restriction mimetics and the like. The plausible outcomes resulting from such efforts look marginal at best, and these research projects are at least as expensive as initiatives that aim at actual rejuvenation, with a far greater predicted outcome. On this topic, Zhavoronkov and I clearly differ in our expectations. Your work focuses on computational medicine, how would you explain this relatively new field of science to our readers? Computational biomedicine is a very broad field of research, where computational methods and tools are applied for diagnosis, treatment and research. The field has been around since the invention of electronic analytical equipment, but in recent years it got a major boost due to the availability in Big Data, increases in computing power, breakthrough...
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