William H. Andrews

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Full Name	William H. Andrews
Occupation	Biologist
Date Of Birth	Dec 10, 1951(1951-12-10)
Age	73
Birthplace	Saginaw
Country	United States
Birth City	Michigan
Horoscope	Sagittarius

William H. Andrews Biography

William H. Andrews is one of the most popular and richest Biologist who was born on December 10, 1951 in Saginaw, Michigan, United States. Andrews was born the 10th of December 1951, to television producers Ralph Andrews and Margaret Andrews. When he was a young boy, Andrews was told by his father to be medical doctor and discover an answer to the problem of aging. Andrews was a graduate of Cate School in 1971, and graduated from the University of California, San Diego in 1976, and was awarded a Ph.D. in Molecular and Population Genetics at the University of Georgia in 1981.

The year 1999 was the time that Andrews established Sierra Sciences in Reno, Nevada, to benefit from his research at Geron which had the objective of curing the aging process in humans. With the support of Investors Richard Offerdahl and Pierluigi Zappacosta, Andrews assembled a team to look for a molecule that would bind the telomerase repressorand cause the body to produce Telomerase in the presence the chemical.

Andrews is an accomplished ultramarathon runner, frequently running races as long as 138 miles long. In 2008 and 2009, Andrews successfully completed the Badwater Ultramarathon, a 135-mile race through Death Valley in temperatures exceeding 120 °F (49 °C).

In 2008, using C0057684 as a positive control, Sierra Sciences developed a much more sensitive real-time PCR based high-throughput screening assay, the “hTERT RT-PCR assay,” with which they were able to screen 4,000 chemicals per week. In 2010, Andrews and Sierra Sciences entered into an agreement with John Anderson, founder of Isagenix International, to use this assay to screen natural ingredients for telomerase activity. A year later, based on the assay’s results, Isagenix launched Product B, a telomere-supporting nutraceutical

Between 1999 and the year 2005 Sierra Sciences’ focus was to discover the telomerase repressor protein in the hope that the drug could be made to bind to it. In the course of this time, Geron Corporation discovered TA-65 an activator of telomerase in small molecules that is derived of Astragalus membranaceus. Sierra Sciences tested its efficacy in the following days, and soon after, Andrews became the first paying customer to use the supplement.

William H. Andrews Net Worth

William H. Andrews is one of the richest Biologist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, William H. Andrews 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

William Henry Andrews, Ph.D. (born on December 10, 1951) is an American molecular biologist and gerontologist who’s career is centered around the search for a cure to the aging process in humans. Andrews is the president and founder of the biotechnology firm Sierra Sciences. The year 1997 was the time he was the leader of an team from Geron Corporation that was the first to discover the human Telomerase.

Andrews was a first employee for the biotechnology firm Armos Corporation, which was later bought from Codon Corporation, which in later was acquired in the form of Berlex Biosciences, now known as Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals. When he joined the company in 1993 Andrews was able to convince Berlex to invite him to attend an anti-aging conference in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, where he was able to meet Calvin Harley of Geron Corporation. Harley gave a presentation on the topic of the telomerase and telomeres and they were discovered in Tetrahymena of Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider and the potential connection between telomeres and ageing. Harley said that nobody has yet succeeded in cloning telomerase from humans. Following the presentation, Andrews approached Harley and said that he would create a human telomerase replica for Geron in just three months. Harley agreed to this opportunity and appointed Andrews for Geron’s Directorship of Molecular Biology. A little over a month and 17 days after, Andrews’ team successfully isolated the RNA component from Telomerase (“hTR”). This discovery was the reason why Andrews along with his team received second place in the category of “National Inventor of the Year” in 1997 by the Intellectual Property Owners Association (first place being given for the invention the anti-protease inhibitors.) Andrews team also co-discovered the protein component of the human telomerase (“hTERT”) and.

In 2005, Andrews shelved Sierra Sciences’ efforts to identify the telomerase repressor protein, instead switching to the “brute force” strategy of developing assays to screen large numbers of semi-random chemicals to determine whether they induced telomerase. In November 2007, after nearly two years of screening, Sierra Sciences discovered the chemical C0056784, which induces approximately 6% as much telomerase as is found in the immortal cancer cell line HeLa.

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