RE: €10m grant issued for gene therapy programme18 Jan 2024 14:23
A number of longevity biotech startups have sprung up, such as Senisca in Exeter, Genflow Biosciences in London, and Shift Bioscience and clock.bio in Cambridge. In the US, the pack is led by California firms such as Altos Labs, which also has a research institute in Cambridge, Calico, backed by Google’s owner Alphabet, Unity Biotechnology and Retro Biosciences.
“We punch way above our weight in terms of the quality and the quantity of our scientific output in the ageing space,” said Lorna Harries, professor of molecular genetics at the University of Exeter, who set up the spinout Senisca in 2020. “But while we’re a scientific powerhouse, we need to develop our ability to turn our findings into things that are tangible outcomes in the real world.”