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Celine Halioua, The Life Extender
The Fountain of Youth For Humans Starts With Woman’s Best Friend
WRITTEN BY: KEVIN JAMES JEFFERY PHOTO CREDIT COURTESY OF: ELISA FERRARI
Halioua is the founder and CEO of Loyal, a biotech startup developing drugs to extend dog lifespan. That’s right, woman’s best friend, whose life has always been too short for our liking, could finally be living more years with their humans.
Fast forward after two internships with the nonprofit, and Halioua was convinced the study of aging was the field she wanted to pursue permanently. “It just made so much sense,” she told Wired in October 2022. “I very quickly knew that this was a hundred percent where I was going to spend my life.”
Halioua’s idea for Loyal emerged from a memo she worked on during her time with Deming, which involved something called insulin-like growth factor 1. This hormone (IGF-1 for short) is naturally found in the blood.
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