Breanna A. Deutsch has spent her professional career working in the US House and the US Senate, and in policy communications in Washington, DC. After working in the US Congress during heated healthcare debates, she recognized a critical question was missing from the conversation: what is the underlying cause of America’s most debilitating and expensive diseases? The answer was, and continues to be, aging. She has researched the intersection between aging, biotechnology and government, and why some of the promising science in the longevity biotech field should be given better standing in the governmental regulatory and appropriations process.