From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Fri May 30 2003 - 23:38:18 MDT
In my humble and entirely biased opinion, this is a very important effort
that Aubrey de Grey and his team are making. For further information on the
good that research prizes do, read:
http://www.betterhumans.com/Features/Columns/Forward_Thinking/column.aspx?ar
ticleID=2003-05-05-2
Fundamental anti-aging research is in the doldrums, and needs invigorating.
Time and time again, research prizes have proven their worth in stimulating
growth in a field of scientific endeavor. The return on investment is
amazingly large.
This Methuselah Mouse prize is a first step towards engaging and interesting
those with much, much more money: a later goal would be setting up
multi-million-dollar prizes for proven interventions in the human aging
process. If it does well, we will all live that much longer. Reinvigorating
real, meaningful scientific anti-aging research is a vital goal.
I wholeheartedly encourage you all to contribute; this is probably the best
opportunity most of you will see to leverage affordable dollar amounts into
extending your lives. I can't overemphasise how important this is: I
personally know of hundreds of thousands of dollars waiting in the wings to
see how this prize does, and I have to be the least connected person in this
industry.
In the grand tradition of money and mouths, I just donated in $1000 to the
prize on behalf of the Longevity Meme. I wish I was wealthier and could do
more.
So come on, step up to the plate and show us all that these lists can do
more than talk about life extension!
Reason
http://www.exratio.com/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of Aubrey de Grey
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 12:57 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Cc: ag24@gen.cam.ac.uk
> Subject: Methuselah Mouse Prize for world record oldest mouse
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> This is to let you know about a new initiative designed to further the
> development of truly effective anti-aging interventions, by promoting
> public interest and involvement in research on mammalian life extension
> and by encouraging more such research to be done. It's called the
> Methuselah Mouse Prize, and it will be launched at the American Aging
> Association conference on Sunday June 8th (11:45am at the Harbor Court
> Hotel, 550 Light Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202-6099), where we will
> make the inaugural award to Andrzej Bartke.
>
> In brief, it is a prize for producing the world's longest-ever-lived
> mouse. The amount awarded is determined by the size of the prize fund,
> to which anyone can contribute, and by the margin by which the record
> is broken. For more details see the Prize site:
>
> http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/mmp/
>
> The two things that the prize needs in its early stages are publicity
> and donors. Even though we will not be trying to get huge sums into
> the prize fund for a while, having a lot of small donations will add
> considerable credibility to the enterprise. Contributions can be made
> up-front (by credit card online) unless they are big (over $25,000) in
> which case we are taking legally-bound pledges. All donors will be
> listed on the Prize web site unless they prefer to remain anonymous.
>
> Please publicise this initiative in any way you can!
>
> Cheers, Aubrey de Grey
> Dept. Genetics, U. Cambridge, UK
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