Here's an introduction for a man you will see appear often in this weblog. His name is Aubrey de Grey. First, I really want to say that I like his beard very much. Second, his continuing focus on overcoming the separate processes that combine to cause aging and the decay of physical processes is certain to be a significant contribution to whatever progress is made in advancing longevity. I'll keep this short--here's what Wikipedia has to say about him.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Aubrey de Grey | |
 Aubrey de Grey, 2008 | |
| Born | April 20, 1963 London, England |
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| Residence | Cambridge, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Ethnicity | England |
| Fields | Biogerontology |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Known for | SENS, Methuselah Mouse Prize |
Aubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey (born 20 April 1963 in London, England) is an English biomedical gerontologist.
De Grey is the author of the mitochondrial free-radical theory of aging, and the general-audience book Ending Aging, a detailed description of how regenerative medicine may be able to thwart the aging process altogether within a few decades. He works on the development of what he has termed "Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence" (SENS) - a tissue-repair strategy intended torejuvenate the human body and thereby allow an indefinite lifespan. To this end, he has identified seven types of molecular and cellular "damage" caused by essential metabolic processes; SENS is a proposed panel of therapies to repair this damage.[1]
De Grey has been interviewed in recent years in many news sources, including CBS 60 Minutes, BBC, the New York Times, Fortune Magazine, the Washington Post, TED, Popular Science and The Colbert Report. His main activities at present are as Chief Science Officer of the SENS Foundation[2] and editor-in-chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research.
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