David Andrew Sinclair Quotes

David Andrew Sinclair

Profession : Scientist

Birth : June 26, 1969

We once thought of cancer as an incurable disease; then we started treating it.

David Andrew Sinclair

Doctors will prescribe medicines for a particular disease but, as a side effect, those medications will work to prevent dozens of others.

David Andrew Sinclair

I believe in my work and advocate for my conclusions.

David Andrew Sinclair

My grandmother is the black-sheep rebel of the family.

David Andrew Sinclair

I'm driven to get to goals as fast as possible. It frustrates people in my lab who have something they think is cool, but if it doesn't move us forward, I don't want to do it.

David Andrew Sinclair

We can change our lives for the better, and always have. We used to think pain during surgery and dying during childbirth were inevitable. We no longer accept that, and we shouldn't just accept aging.

David Andrew Sinclair

We've always known that our bodies are capable of healing themselves under the right conditions: Diet and exercise improve our health. But there are also ancient genetic survival pathways in every living thing.

David Andrew Sinclair

I actually think it will be possible one day to be immortal.

David Andrew Sinclair

I thought that tackling aging and the mechanisms that promote life would be worth figuring out. I wanted to learn why it is that some people are healthier than others and why some people live to 110 and others only to 60 or 70.

David Andrew Sinclair

The ultimate goal is to have a pill that can prevent or reverse all diseases of aging. The major diseases that I'd like to tackle are heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's and cancer. I want to reduce those diseases by 10 percent.

David Andrew Sinclair