I think this area may well be one of the most promising new cause areas for EA. Getting to general public’s consciousness the idea that aging may be [to an extent] treatable, as well as affecting the regulatory bodies (FDA, EMA and such) and professional community to make developing anti-aging treatments easier is both tractable, neglected, and if done successfully it can affect allocation of the huge governmental and private funds currently directed to drug discovery, thus creating a leverage effect. It’s very unfortunate this got as few votes as it did.
Thanks Alex P for your support—only just seen this, and I don’t know how the voting system works—does the fact I only got a few votes mean I definitely won’t get funding from OP? Is there any other avenue I should be pursuing?
Not quite sure, but as far as I understand only the top 10 or so voted posts were getting any funding within this contest, and the contest is closed by now. There is definitely other ways to get funding from EA, but I’m one of the least qualified people on this forum to advice on those. Jack Harley (of LongevityWiki fame) is probably the right guy to ask about other avenues, he’s much more involved with the community and he’s working on a similar task—public engagement around longevity and anti-aging.
I think this area may well be one of the most promising new cause areas for EA. Getting to general public’s consciousness the idea that aging may be [to an extent] treatable, as well as affecting the regulatory bodies (FDA, EMA and such) and professional community to make developing anti-aging treatments easier is both tractable, neglected, and if done successfully it can affect allocation of the huge governmental and private funds currently directed to drug discovery, thus creating a leverage effect. It’s very unfortunate this got as few votes as it did.
Thanks Alex P for your support—only just seen this, and I don’t know how the voting system works—does the fact I only got a few votes mean I definitely won’t get funding from OP? Is there any other avenue I should be pursuing?
Not quite sure, but as far as I understand only the top 10 or so voted posts were getting any funding within this contest, and the contest is closed by now. There is definitely other ways to get funding from EA, but I’m one of the least qualified people on this forum to advice on those. Jack Harley (of LongevityWiki fame) is probably the right guy to ask about other avenues, he’s much more involved with the community and he’s working on a similar task—public engagement around longevity and anti-aging.