Kristen Fortney (BioAge) - Derisking Biotech

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Journey, Startups, Education, Stanford, Culture, Strategy, Stanford University, Entrepreneurship, Business, Life Lessons, Thought Leadership, Creativity, Etl, Challenges, Leadership, Innovation, Founders

4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Kristen Fortney is the co-founder and CEO of BioAge Labs, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a pipeline of treatments to extend healthy lifespan by targeting the molecular causes of aging. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Toby Corey, Fortney discusses strategies for reducing risk along the path to developing world-changing therapies.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build.
0:06.8	This is the entrepreneurial thought leader series.
0:10.8	Brought to you by Stanford E. Corner.
0:14.1	Good afternoon. I'm Toby Corey. And I'd like to welcome all the Stanford students, all the students around the world, all the enlightened folks to today's ETL.
0:24.4	Presented by STVP, the Entrepreneurship Center in Stanford School of Engineering and Bases.
0:29.9	That's the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial students.
0:33.9	Today I'm incredibly delighted to welcome Kristen Fortney to ETL.
0:39.1	Kristen is the co-founder and CEO of BioAge Labs.
0:42.7	This is a clinical stage biotechnology company, developing a pipeline of treatments to extend
0:48.2	healthy lifespan by targeting the molecular causes of aging.
0:52.8	Doesn't sound too technical, right?
0:54.6	The company uses its discovery platform, which combines quantitative analysis of proprietary,
1:00.4	longitudinal human samples with detailed health records, tracking individuals over a lifespan
1:05.8	to map out the key molecular pathways that impact healthy human aging. By targeting these pathways
1:12.9	with a large and diverse portfolio of drugs, BioAge aims to treat, and even prevent diseases
1:19.0	of aging entirely new ways, her talk's going to be really fascinating. So, Kristen's scientific
1:24.8	background is in aging biology and bioformatics. She received her PhD in
1:30.1	medical biophysics from the University of Toronto, followed by a postdoctoral training at Stanford
1:35.7	University, where she has a fellow of the Ellison Medical Foundation, American Federation for Aging
1:42.4	Research. Kristen, welcome to today's ETL show.
1:47.0	Thanks so much, Toby, for that introduction. It's really wonderful to be here. Yeah, we're so happy.
1:52.5	I know there's like an immense amount of info to get through. So I think what would be really helpful,
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