Who am I?

I research longevity with a focus on bioelectricity and intercellular communication. In it’s most abstract form, these are networks that transmit energy and information, and so more generally, I am interested in intervention strategies in complex systems.

On a day to day basis, I just refer to this as exercising agency.

I moved to Saint Louis to study biomedical engineering at Washington University. That didn’t last long. I shifted focus to growing a software platform called Wand that I have since exited.

Along the way, I got involved in a podcast as an executive producer. This gave me an opportunity to build connections and learn from people I thought were doing the most important work in the world. Using our equipment from the podcast, my partner and I started a business called Legacy Interviews. These interviews give future generations the opportunity to understand where they came from in a timeless video and leather-bound autobiography.

In time I started more rigorously doing the research I initially went to school to study, but independently. I jumped through some of the hoops that most independents don’t such as puplishing in peer reviewed journals and presenting at conferences in the space. As my research pursuits began to take more and more time, my partner one day asked me,

Ben, would you take it as aggressive or as a relief if I were to offer to buy you out?

I replied that it would be a relief. The next thing he did was slam the table and say, “Well then let’s do that in a way that makes us both feel great!” We did. This gave me the time and resources to lever into the work I was doing in a way I hadn’t yet been able to.

My time is currently an 80/20 split between this and building a real estate portfolio in Saint Louis, Missouri to maintain sovereignty. I also now have a lab space and am inviting others to join me in this work through Aion Biosciences.