# Aging Research and Drug Discovery Conference 2023 - Reporting **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [August 28, 2023, 11:26pm UTC](https://www.rapamycin.news/t/aging-research-and-drug-discovery-conference-2023-reporting/9069 "2023-08-28T23:26:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 12
**Author:** ![RapAdmin](https://www.rapamycin.news/user_avatar/www.rapamycin.news/rapadmin/32/377_2.png) [@RapAdmin](https://www.rapamycin.news/u/RapAdmin)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 4:03am UTC](https://www.rapamycin.news/t/aging-research-and-drug-discovery-conference-2023-reporting/9069/12 "2023-09-02T04:03:30Z")
I suspect that most of the scientists at these types of meetings are doing minimal efforts in the way of taking longevity drugs and supplements. If you look at our list of the health and longevity people you’ll tend to find that those who are taking rapamycin typically don’t take much else. I think most scientists are more interested in the science and the pursuit of knowledge than they are longevity enthusiasts (wanting to live much longer). [Who in the Health and Longevity Field are Taking Rapamycin (part 2)](https://www.rapamycin.news/t/who-in-the-health-and-longevity-field-are-taking-rapamycin-part-2/70) The more Pharma-oriented the person (e.g. Joan Mannick) the more likely it seems they will want to have the double blind, placebo-controlled clinical studies to back up the use of the the drug or supplement (and since they are rare on the supplement side, that means few of them take the supplements). My scientist friends are all much more rigorous in wanting to see the data from long term clinical studies… and are much less interested in the risk/reward analysis that I think is more common in the engineering / technology types (at least this seems to be the case from my experience in the SF Bay Area / Silicon Valley). In the “Bay Area” longevity is seen as an engineering challenge and we’ve seen many of those solved over the decades so this seems like nothing too different. Of course its an order of magnitude more complex… --- _[View the full topic](https://www.rapamycin.news/t/aging-research-and-drug-discovery-conference-2023-reporting/9069)._