Aubrey de Grey

Scientist, Technologist

Dr. Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist based in Mountain View, California, USA Cambridge, UK, and is the Chief Science Officer of SENS Research Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity dedicated to combating the aging process. He is also Editor-in-Chief of "Rejuvenation Research", the world's highest-impact peer-reviewed academic journal focused on intervention in aging. SENS Research Foundation's work encompasses the etiology of all the accumulating and eventually pathogenic molceular and cellular side-effects of metabolism ("damage") that constitute mammalian aging and the design of interventions to repair and/or obviate that damage. He has developed a possibly comprehensive plan for such repair, termed Straegies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS), which breaks the aging problem down into seven major classes of damage and identifies detailed approaches to addressing each one.

Saving lives - lots of lives - by truly defeating aging

Old people are people too. If you can't keep up with your granddaughter on the dancefloor, you're not healthy, and I want to give you the option to recover your health completely - looking, feeling and functioning just like a young adult - and maintain it indefinitely, however long you live. There may well be a big side-benefit of this, in terms of living a lot longer, but the core motivation of this crusade is not lingevity: it's to alleviate the astronomical amount of suffering that comes with the debilitation and disease of old age.

Gerontology, Punting

Met Chris Anderson at op!Tech in 2003; he invited me on the spot to speak at the first TEGlobal, in Oxford; spoke at the subsequent TED in Monterey (2006); met so many phenomenal people that I had no hesitation in registering for TED2007 and beyond. The video of my 2005 talk is still by a huge margin the most common way in which people discover my work.