Brandon Stover On Life

Celine Halioua is the CEO and Founder of Loyal, a biotech startup developing drugs to extend dog lifespan. BUT with a twist! If this life-extension research and drug development works for canines, her theory is that it could lead to breakthroughs for the rest of us humans for age related diseases! Previously, she held various roles at The Longevity Fund, an early stage venture capital fund investing in companies developing therapeutics to treat aging. Celine has a technical background in neuroscience and gene therapy. She holds a B.Sc. in neuroscience from the University of Texas at Austin and was a D.Phil. student at Oxford University. She worked in the laboratories of Dr. Evan Snyder at the Sanford-Burnham-Prebys Medical Discovery Institute on novel enteric neuron disease therapeutics, and of Dr. Richard Morrisett and Dr. Keith Stevenson at The University of Texas at Austin on the development of novel silver-nanocluster neuronal tracers for applications in neuropharmacology.

Show Notes

Celine Halioua is the CEO and Founder of Loyal, a biotech startup developing drugs to extend dog lifespan. BUT with a twist! If this life-extension research and drug development works for canines, her theory is that it could lead to breakthroughs for the rest of us humans for age related diseases! Previously, she held various roles at The Longevity Fund, an early stage venture capital fund investing in companies developing therapeutics to treat aging. Celine has a technical background in neuroscience and gene therapy. She holds a B.Sc. in neuroscience from the University of Texas at Austin and was a D.Phil. student at Oxford University. She worked in the laboratories of Dr. Evan Snyder at the Sanford-Burnham-Prebys Medical Discovery Institute on novel enteric neuron disease therapeutics, and of Dr. Richard Morrisett and Dr. Keith Stevenson at The University of Texas at Austin on the development of novel silver-nanocluster neuronal tracers for applications in neuropharmacology.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE

  • Why cracking the code on a dog's can fix human age related diseases
  • What's wrong with the longevity field
  • How to go from academia to startups
  • The real mental and emotional challenges of being a founder
  • How to think about sacrifice, personal responsibility, and your own mortality
  • and much more...

Full show notes, transcripts, and resources can be found here: evolvethe.world/episodes/68

TIMESTAMPS

(00:00) - Podcast Recommendation - #impact with Regina Larko

(00:43) - Introduction

(02:17) - Celine's Mission For Better Medicine and Healthcare

(04:40) - Why dog longevity to fix human illness

(07:11) - Why Celine cares so much about longevity

(09:39) - What's wrong with the longevity field

(11:57) - What does longevity actually look like

(14:04) - What is Loyal for dogs and what is it creating

(18:33)  - How Celine wants to inspire other biotech founders

(20:25) - How to manage senior talent as a young founder

(21:59) - How to go from academia to startups

(26:25) - The first step for creating a biotech company

(28:00) - Mental models, self awareness, and emotional challenges as a found

(34:12) - Sacrifice and personal responsibility

(35:32) - Are we all delaying our own mortality

(36:35) - Call to Action

(37:24) - How to push the world to Evolve

What is Brandon Stover On Life?

Join Brandon Stover, founder of Plato University, as he questions everything in life to challenge the way you think. Every change in the world starts with one person. Through narrated essays and intellectual interviews, this podcast will equip you with practical philosophies, new perspectives, and modern understandings of global issues so that change can start with you. It will help you to become a more critical thinker, find purpose in your life, and discover why you would want to take action in changing the world.

"They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do." - Steve Jobs