Oracle CEO Funds Age-Control Research

If the best way to beat your enemies is to outlive them, then that may explain one of Larry Ellison's favorite investment projects: side-stepping the Grim Reaper. The Oracle CEO is one of the largest private supporters of research to control aging, investing millions toward the cause via his Ellison Medical Foundation.

Bill Gates has also invested millions in biotech, but his funding seems to be more focused on curing disease, says Max More, president of the Extropy Institute: "Ellison is more interested in funding research for dramatic extension of the human life span." One Ellison Medical Foundation grant went to a University of Idaho researcher who's studying the longevity of birds, which can live six times longer than mice, even with similar metabolism and body size.


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"Larry shouldn't worry so much," says an AARP spokesman. "We believe life begins at 50." Ellison, 56, definitely qualifies for AARP membership--which includes discounts on vacation packages but not yachts or jet fighters, the spokesman says.


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