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History of Telomere Biology from a Front Row Seat

Telomere Summit- January 2022

<h6>Joseph M. Raffaele, M.D.</h6>
For many of you interested in telomere biology, Dr. Bill Andrews needs no introduction. His vast knowledge of telomere biology requires that I interview him in two parts. He is the founder and CEO of Sierra Sciences, a company focused on finding ways to extend human lifespan and health span through telomere maintenance. As a scientist, athlete, and executive, Bill continually pushes the envelope and challenges convention. He has been featured in &#8220;Popular Science,&#8221; &#8220;The Today Show,&#8221; and numerous documentaries on the topic of life extension, including most recently the movie, &#8220;The Immortalists.&#8221; Bill has been a medical researcher in biotech since 1981, focusing on cancer, heart disease, and inflammation research, though his passion has always been aging. 
In the early to mid 1990s, while at Geron Corporation, Bill led the research to discover both the RNA and protein components of the human enzyme called telomerase. Bill earned his PhD in molecular and population genetics at the University of Georgia in 1981. He then served as Senior Scientist at Armos Corporation and Codon Corporation, Director of Molecular Biology at Berlex Sciences and at Geron Corporation, and Director of Technology Development at EOS Biosciences before starting Sierra Sciences in 1999, where he now serves as President and CEO, as well as Chief Scientific Officer. 
Bill is also a named inventor on over 50 U.S.-issued patents on telomerase and author of numerous scientific research studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Bill is also an avid ultra marathon runner. He regularly competes in 50 and 100-plus-mile races, often finishing at the top of his age group. He considers endurance exercise, when done properly, to be a way to significantly slow down the aging process. Bill&#8217;s obsession is to cure aging and that includes his own aging. His regimen to slow down his own aging and declining health is unique and based on years of his own research.
Well, Bill, it is fantastic to have you on the Telomere Summit. I&#8217;ve been waiting to interview you because of course, talking about telomere biology without talking to Bill Andrews is, it&#8217;s just that&#8217;s not something you can do. So you&#8217;ve been in the field for decades and I&#8217;d love to have you start by just giving the audience a little bit perspective about that you kind of uniquely have on where, why you got interested in telomere biology, what you&#8217;ve been doing with it, and where a little bit you think things are going in the future.

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Dr. Bill Andrews is the Founder and CEO of Sierra Sciences, a company focused on finding ways to extend human lifespan and health span through telomere maintenance. Telomeres are found at the tips of our chromosomes and have been shown, in thousands of scientific peer-reviewed studies, to be the clock of aging in humans. When telomeres get shorter, we get older, and our health declines. As a scientist, athlete, and executive, Bill continually pushes the envelope and challenges convention. He has been featured in Popular Science, The Today Show, and numerous documentaries on the topic of life extension including, most recently, the movie The Immortalists in which he co-stars with Dr. Aubrey de Grey. See www.theimmortalists.com/watch. Bill is known for being a scientist first, focusing on scientific research, allowing others, instead, to market the products that his company discovers.

William Andrews

Dr. Raffaele received his B.A. in philosophy from Princeton University and his M.D. from Drexel University Medical School in 1989. He trained at The New York Hospital/Cornell University Medical Center and was formerly a clinical assistant professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. Dr. Raffaele is board certified in internal medicine, a member of the Endocrine Society, and a diplomat of the American Board of Anti-Aging Medicine. In 1997, he co-founded PhysioAge Medical Group, where he exclusively practiced age-management medicine, focusing on personalized hormone optimization and physiological age assessment.

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