Finding People Interested in a Project

[Drew Jones]

I'm curious if anybody is aware of any resources to connect biologists and scientists with investors and money. To clarify, I am on the investment side and looking to put together a team that would be interested in working with stem cells, with the purpose of multiplication on dermal papillae cells (yes, for hair regrowth). Understanding that many people are already involved in this area, there is some interest still among my peers in putting money together to form a team around exploring this concept further. Quite simply put, however, I'm not finding it very easy to connect with the right people with the right skills. I'm hoping someone on this group might be able to provide some insight on who I would want to speak with or where I might find parties interested in being a part of this. 

[Reason]

Well, a start would be to talk to any one of the highly connected
research organizations presently coordinating rejuvenation work. They
have a fair chance of redirecting you to one of the established groups
working on your area of interest or something similar. I would suggest
contacting Aubrey de Grey at the SENS Research Foundation, not because
the Foundation has the slightest interest in or are presently performing
this work in their immediate network, because they are not, but because
they are highly networked, with a lot of experience in connecting
investors and researchers, and probably know some of the people who are
doing this at present.

Other than that, really if you have have money you don't need
networking. Having money is basically a key to talk to any researcher
any time. Go read the popular press releases on the work you are
interested in funding, trace it back to the journals and labs doing the
work, look up the phone number or email address of the researcher in
question, and then call them. They'll be happy to talk to you.

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[Mega [Andreas Stuermer]]

A nice idea.

Depends on what qualifications you want and how much money you have to spend.

You surely know there are hair cells on the back of the head which are immune to dehydrotesteron, while others fall out whwn in contact with DHT.
Hair transplants work that way.

However, my spproach would have been to compare receptors of the resistant hair follicles with the dht-sensitive ones, both from the same person. Gene silencing by hydrodynamic DNA delivery could then be applied.

[Mega [Andreas Stuermer]]

But basically there shouldn't be much difficulties finding someone who can do mammalian cell culture. Of course, high sterility must be done to avoid breeding viruses. But that is easily solvable with the bucks.

[Drew Jones]

I appreciate the suggestions! I'll certainly look into those avenues!