John Schloendorn

Researcher, Arizona State University

John Schloendorn is a graduate student at the Biodesign Institute of Arizona State University and aids the Methuselah Foundation, a non-profit medical charity dedicated to extending healthy human life, in research toward their LysoSENS program. He works at the Center for Environmental Biotechnology on the characterization of the organization's 7-ketocholesterol degraders. His main focus in the field of biotechnology is biochemistry.

The LysoSENS strategy is an attempt to equip the lysosome organelle responsible for waste disposal in the cell with new enzymes that can degrade presently indissoluble material. These enzymes are being searched for in soil bacteria and fungi. Micro-organisms present in soil have enzymes capable of breaking these aggregates down, as preliminary work being carried on at Arizona State University has already confirmed.

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