Support for LIfT Biosciences to Develop the LIFT Approach to a Universal Cancer Therapy

It is good to see that more of the promising technical approaches to aspects of aging, originally put forward by people in the SENS rejuvenation research network some years ago, are now making solid progress towards commercial implementation. The LIFT, or GIFT, approach to cancer therapy involves the transplantation of suitably aggressive leukocyte or granulocyte immune cells from a donor. At the time it was first demonstrated to be highly effective in mice, more than a decade ago, the underlying mechanisms were not well explored, and that always makes it hard to obtain further support from scientific funding institutions. This is despite the point that the approach has the potential to be a near universal cancer therapy, applicable to most or all forms of cancer, even at very late stages. Thus, unfortunately, the work progressed only very slowly for some years, materially supported by philanthropic funding and non-profit efforts. This is not an unusual story when it comes to development of new medical biotechnologies. Our communities and institutions are not good at identifying the best of work taking place in the lab and organizing to push it forward towards the clinic in a timely manner. Fortunately it is now becoming much easier to raise venture capital for the development of ambitious new biotechnologies, and so the approach is under development by LIfT Biosciences, who just received an influx of funding from Kizoo Technology Ventures, a group well known for thei...
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