A continental race within a global race? Here’s the byline- “In the world’s fastest-aging societies, regenerative therapies attract the rich and curious.” There’s way too much info to unpack from from this lengthy article from #NikkeiAsia. Bottom line is that #regenerativemedicine, as it relates to #geroscience is thriving Asia. Overcoming the certain stem cell scandals in Korea and Japan, the article declares that field is exploding. Evidence of such growth is Singapore’s #Regenosis that boasts it’s out to “challenge the norms of how illnesses and age-related diseases are viewed and treated, with diagnoses, procedures and therapies based on the latest biotechnologies.” Interesting warnings from professor emeritus at #KyotoUniversityNorio Nakatsuji an esteemed friend and past recipient of an International Leadership Award from my organization #regenerativemedicinefoundation. Also, Brian Kennedy CFO of Regenosis and distinguished professor at the #NationalUniversityofSingapore and is director of the #CentreforHealthyLongevity. Brian is of the pathfinders of the field. Note that the article omits mention of India where regenerative medicine is thriving.
-Bernard Siegel
In the world’s fastest-aging societies, regenerative therapies attract the rich and curious
By LOUIS RAYMOND, Contributing writer Nikkei Asia
SINGAPORE — Businessman Dato Shaun Lim was a successful real estate mogul until he suddenly decided to switch careers in 2019. Flicking through the movie list on an international flight, he chanced to watch a documentary about “geroscience” — the study of aging and how it can be stopped. That struck Lim as a rather good business proposition. Later that year, Lim would co-found Regenosis, a clinic and geroscience research company, devoted to stem cell therapies designed to halt or reverse the aging process.
Today, the fruits of Lim’s investment can be found at the Southern end of the Malay Peninsula, in the city of Iskandar Puteri, which is mostly home to people working in downtown Singapore, an hour away by train.
But a trickle of ultrawealthy people are commuting in the other direction, their destination a futuristic building decorated with Saturnian rings and skywalks that houses Regenosis. For those willing to pay a presumably astronomical price tag, which Regenosis will not disclose, they can attempt to cheat death with stem cell therapies.