Building CERN for Aging Biology with Todd White (Thalion Initiative)

​Todd White spent 25 years as a telecom engineer before turning to humanity's greatest challenge: Solving aging. As Managing Director of The Thalion Initiative, he's building what he calls a "CERN for aging biology," a philanthropic, pre-commercial research org standardizing the assays, datasets, and infrastructure that no single biotech can justify to its shareholders.

​In this conversation, we'll cover why Todd argues that most aging research amounts to educated guesswork, that venture capital distorts the science by forcing premature commercialization, and that the real cheat codes for human longevity are sitting in the genomes of long-lived animals nobody is studying systematically. We'll get into Thalion's bet on comparative biology, why he models the org on the Manhattan Project rather than a typical biotech, and what philanthropy can do that pharma structurally can't.

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​About Longevity Biotech Fellowship (LBF)

The LBF is a nonprofit startup focussed on mobilizing the world's top talent to work on solving aging.

Apply for the LBF8 cohort program. Workshop retreat kick off Aug 24 - 28 in Blue Ridge Mountains North Carolina.