An Australian man cured his dog's cancer for $3,000. No pharma company. No FDA. Just a genome sequence, AlphaFold, and a homemade vaccine.
That story is a small window into a much bigger shift, and it's the subject of our new Free Cities Podcast episode with Niklas Anzinger, Founder & CEO of Infinita City and a General Partner at Infinita VC.
Niklas has probably done more than anyone to put Próspera on the longevity biotech map. We sat down in Austin to talk about why the way medicine gets made is starting to come apart, and what replaces it.
A few of the threads we pull on:
- Why aging isn't officially a disease, and why that quietly holds back one of the best-funded industries in the world.
- How China went from near zero to 30% of global pharma licensing deals in a single decade, and what that should tell the United States.
- Why Right to Try laws in Montana and New Hampshire might matter more than any federal reform.
- Robin Hanson's idea that your doctor and your life insurer should be the same company, so that someone finally has an incentive to keep you alive.
- And the question underneath all of it: why do you need permission to try to save your own life?
Apparently, a lot of this stuff is going to happen in my lifetime.
And I'm quite old. Fingers crossed.
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