Foresight x Fauna Bio Salon @ Vitalist Bay

​​Part of Foresight Institute's monthly salon series, this time hosted in collaboration with Fauna Bio and Longevity San Juan.

Join us for an evening with Ashley Zehnder, the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fauna Bio. Ashley has been recognized for her work by the SF Business Times Women Who Lead in Life Sciences, an Emerging Woman Founder in Bio by the Wave Summit, as well as representing Fauna Bio for the Fortune AI Minute. She has spoken at numerous events promoting the use of AI and novel genomics in drug discovery and longevity medicine and mentors early stage founders through her work with On Deck Longevity Biotech and Nucleate Bio. She is a boarded avian veterinarian and her prior research focused on translational science, earning a PhD in Cancer Biology from Stanford. Her research works span >20 peer-reviewed publications, including Cell, Nature and Nature Medicine.

​​She will present Beyond Human Limits: Lessons in Longevity from Earth's Most Resilient Creatures

​​After Ashley's opening remarks, we'll break out into smaller groups for focused discussions that may include:

1. ​Designing Resilient Systems (Biological, Digital, Societal)

2. ​Ethical Horizons of Radical Longevity

3. ​Bio-Inspired Longevity

4. ​​AI for LongBio and Drug Design

5. ​​A topic of your choice

​​We'll reconvene for group report-outs, followed by networking time for deeper connections. Drinks and light refreshments will be served.

​​Thank you to Vitalist Bay and Lighthaven for hosting us!

​​Foresight Institute supports the beneficial development of high-impact technology to make great futures more likely. We focus on science and technology that is too early-stage, interdisciplinary, or ambitious for legacy institutions to support, such as biotech, neurotech, nanotech, space & computing.

​​Learn more at foresight.org