The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Dr Andrew Steele emerges in this interview as a quintessential Pioneer, navigating the frontier where physics meets biology and where laboratory science meets economic and policy transformation. Steele traces his unconventional trajectory from Oxford physicist to computational biologist, driven not by convention but by the conviction that aging is biology's most consequential unsolved problem.
“I thought this seems like a really big deal. This could potentially hit the root cause of many of the biggest killers in the modern world.”
On discovering aging biology researchundated
“We have got an astonishing number of shots on goal in the sense that we've got dozens of ways to slow down aging in the lab and we just need to try some of these things in humans.”
On the feasibility of anti-aging medicineundated
“If you're a pension fund, maybe you should be thinking, is there a 1% chance that all my clients are suddenly going to live to 120?”
Advising financial institutions on longevity riskundated
Money Maze Podcast: “Can We Live Longer? What it Might Mean for Medicine, Money, & Markets - With Dr Andrew Steele”
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