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DR. PRESTON W. "PETE" ESTEP III
Preston W. "Pete" Estep III, Ph.D. is Chairman of
The InnerSpace Foundation (IF), a nonprofit organization
dedicated to promoting and funding neuroengineering approaches for the
dramatic enhancement of memory and learning. The IF funds cutting-edge
neuroscience and engineering research and it organizes and runs
The
IF
Prize, prize-based neuroengineering competitions for the
development of
brain and memory enhancement interfaces and devices.
The
IF takes the
position that the most rapid timelines to solving humanity's most
serious problems — including providing complete and lasting cures
for
the most diseased and disabled — will be accomplished through
widespread
improvement of memory and mind, rather than through the best efforts of
people who are well-meaning but of naturally limited
abilities.
Pete is a graduate of Cornell University, where he earned a B.S.
degree and performed neuroscience research as a Howard Hughes Medical
Institute undergraduate scholar. He earned a Ph.D. in Genetics from
Harvard Medical School performing research in the laboratory of
genomics pioneer Dr. George Church. He has founded and advised multiple
technology startup companies and organizations.
He is also
active in biogerontology research and is a cofounder and former CEO of
the longevity research biotechnology company Longenity, Inc. He is
also active in nutrigenomics and is an adviser to the
Personal Genome
Project, an "open-source" genome
project based at Harvard Medical School. He is an inventor of several
technologies including
DNA chip-based readout of transposon-based
selections and
universal DNA protein-binding microarrays
(PBMs).
Pete authored
The Promise of Human Lifespan Extension and
Many factors modify the physiological response to sugary
liquids,
and coauthored
Selection analyses of insertional mutants using subgenic-resolution
arrays,
Compact, universal DNA microarrays to comprehensively determine
transcription-factor binding site specificities,
Computational identification of Cis-regulatory elements associated
with
groups of functionally related genes in Saccharomyces
cerevisiae,
The Isw2 Chromatin Remodeling Complex Represses Early Meiotic Genes
upon Recruitment by Ume6p, and
Finding DNA regulatory motifs within unaligned noncoding sequences
clustered by whole-genome mRNA quantitation.
His patents include
Methods of assaying physiological states and
Space efficient polymer sets.
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