Currently, we don’t have a good regulatory pathway, people don’t have the right to try, we don’t have good preclinical models, and regulatory capture has stalled innovation. A gene therapy or vaccine shouldn’t take billions of $$ and 15 years to pass, it should take less than 1 year (COVID was the exception, we need to make it the norm, better, cheaper, faster).
Our time in Zuzalu is an incredible opportunity for us to rethink some core societal components from first principles, and plant the seeds for what can become a new sovereign zone for longevity research and biomedical innovation. At the end of the experiment, participants will hopefully be carrying a common message of delegitimization of the current system and agreeing on a moral innovation. We invite you to debate and put in practice some initial ideas on how a Longevity Network State (LNS) could look like!
Residents will likely be discussing these topics throughout their entire stay at Zuzalu. However, we’re putting together two official events featuring outside speakers and invitees with relevant experience:
New jurisdictions for longevity and medical innovation [Public Workshop]
Below you can find an aggregate of some topics we deem relevant when ideating on new jurisdictions: