Aubrey de Grey

Scientist, Academic

1963 –

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Who is Aubrey de Grey?

Aubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey is an English author and theoretician in the field of gerontology, and the Chief Science Officer of the SENS Research Foundation. He is editor-in-chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research, author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging and co-author of Ending Aging. He is known for his view that human beings alive today could live to lifespans far in excess of any authenticated cases.

De Grey's research focuses on whether regenerative medicine can thwart the aging process. He works on the development of what he calls "Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence", a collection of proposed techniques to rejuvenate the human body and stop aging. 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 designed to repair this damage.

De Grey is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, the American Aging Association, the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and an advisor to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. He has been interviewed in recent years in a number of news sources, including CBS 60 Minutes, the BBC, The New York Times, Fortune Magazine, The Washington Post, TED, Popular Science, The Colbert Report, Time and the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe. He is also a member of Flooved advisory Board.

Famous Quotes:

  • There are really very important differences between the type of creativity involved in being a scientist and being a technical engineer. It means that I’m able to think in very different ways and come up with approaches to things that are different from the way a basic scientist might think.

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Born
Apr 20, 1963
London
Also known as
  • Aubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey
Spouses
Nationality
  • England
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Education
  • Doctorate, University of Cambridge
    ( - 2000)
  • Bachelor of Arts, University of Cambridge
    Computer Science
    ( - 1985)
  • Trinity Hall, Cambridge
  • Harrow School
  • Sussex House School
Employment
  • Sinclair Research
  • Chairman, The Methuselah Foundation
Lived in
  • Cambridge

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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