Eleanor Davies
Gennady Stolyarov II
Zack Varkaris
Jason Geringer
Daniel E. Twedt
Art Ramon Garcia, Jr.
Bill Andrews, PhD

On Sunday, September 3, 2023, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invited Eleanor Davies to discuss VitaDAO’s approach to the decentralized funding of scientific research to advance human longevity and health. Topics discussed included the following:

– The organizational structure and governance of VitaDAO;
– How decisions are made within VitaDAO and how the community can have input;
– How decentralized science can help align incentives to promote breakthroughs;
– How VitaDAO works with IP digital assets;
– Longevity research projects supported by VitaDAO;
– Lessons for deploying decentralized science and decentralized governance approaches more broadly;
– What decentralized science approaches can imply about desirable policy and regulatory reform.

Timestamps

3:03 – Presentation by Eleanor Davies
25:38 – VitaDAO stakeholders
27:56 – How much agreement there is on the VitaDAO Board
31:02 – How potential projects are decided upon
40:52 – Contributors
43:17 – The prospects for Big Pharma in VitaDAO and DeSci
47:19 – Quadratic voting
50:27 – DAO governance
52:07 – NFT particulars
1:20:49 – Overcoming barriers for new potential investors to VitaDAO
1:29:17 – How VitaDAO’s Discord server is managed
1:32:48 – How VitaDAO stays legally compliant
1:37:58 – The fit of the current paradigm with health optimization
1:42:49 – How VitaDAO integrity could be maintained even with Big Pharma aboard
1:44:27 – The balance of IP and Open Source
1:47:38 – How Eleanor came to VitaDAO
1:53:02 – Closing questions and comments from panelists
2:08:55 – Eleanor’s closing comments

Eleanor Davies is a Dealflow Steward at VitaDAO, the world’s first decentralized collective funding company targeting age-related diseases and aging itself. She is a longevity enthusiast with a background in fund operations and consulting in healthcare and biotech policy and regulation. A graduate of the University of Manchester, she has grown as a professional serving in Marwood Group healthcare and biotech consultancy, co-founding a company and helping to raise funds, deploy capital, and manage the portfolio at ODX, a Silicon Valley-based accelerator. More recently, she has actively engaged with the DeSci community, serving as COO of LabDAO.

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