Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos has hired one of the world’s top boffins to help him deliver the secret to living hundreds of years illness-free.
GlaxoSmithKline icon Hal Barron, 59, will run Bezos’s new “anti-ageing” firm Altos Labs.
The company has a £2.2 billion war chest to find a revolutionary cell programming technique that could help humans avoid all diseases and live for huge amounts of time years.
The biotech firm has a crack team of scientists including a string of Nobel prize winners.
Barron, who will start his role in August, said: “I am deeply honoured to have been offered this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to lead such a unique company with a transformative mission to reverse disease.”
Altos, which will be based in Cambridge and California in the US, has lured a number of university professors with what has been dubbed “sports-star salaries”.
Its focus will be on “cellular programming” which is used to revive cells in a lab.
Some experts believe it could extend human life by wiping out diseases linked to age including cancer and Alzheimer’s.
