AgeX Therapeutics

AgeX Therapeutics (“AgeX”) is an American biotechnology company developing medical therapeutics related to human longevity. It was founded in 2017 by Michael D. West, PhD initially as a subsidiary of BioTime, Inc. with backing from British billionaire investor Jim Mellon and others.[1][2][3][4]

AgeX Therapeutics, Inc.
Public
Traded asAMEX: AGE
IndustryBiotechnology, aging research
Founded2017
HeadquartersAlameda, California
Key people
Michael D. West, founder and CEO

Aubrey de Grey, VP of New Technology Discovery

Gregory Bailey, Chairman

Jim Mellon, investor
Websitewww.agexinc.com

West formerly served as CEO of BioTime[2] and Advanced Cell Technology[5] and founded Geron Corporation in 1990.[6][7] The company's vice president of new technology discovery is Aubrey de Grey, PhD, who also serves as chief scientific officer of the SENS Research Foundation. The chairman is Gregory Bailey, MD, who was an early backer and board member of Medivation until its acquisition by Pfizer in 2016 for $14 billion.[8][3]

Competitors include Alphabet Inc.’s Calico, Unity Biotechnology, and Samumed.[9]

In January 2020, AgeX Therapeutics announced a research collaboration with a Japanese biopharma company utilizing AgeX's UniverCyte technology platform.[10]

References
  1. "Anti-ageing drugs are coming that could keep you healthier for longer". New Scientist. April 24, 2019.
  2. "AgeX to develop powerful regenerative and anti-aging treatments". Next Big Future. December 16, 2017.
  3. "British billionaire Jim Mellon and high-profile partners roll the dice on an anti-aging upstart". Endpoints News. July 26, 2017.
  4. "Juvenescence aims to tap longevity 'money fountain'". FT. June 11, 2018.
  5. "Who Is Doctor West, And Why Has He Got George Bush So Ticked Off?". Fortune Small Business. April 1, 2002.
  6. "Biotechnology Company Says It Has Cloned a Cancer Gene". The New York Times. August 18, 1997.
  7. Hall, Stephen (2003). "Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the New Dream of Life Extension". Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0547561571. Page 320.
  8. "Pfizer to Buy Cancer Drug Maker in $14 Billion Deal". New York Times. August 22, 2016.
  9. "Silicon Valley's Quest to Live Forever". The New Yorker. March 27, 2017.
  10. "AgeX Therapeutics Enters Research Collaboration With Japanese Biopharma Company to Generate Hypoimmunogenic Cells". finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
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