Aubrey De Grey
Special guest
Background
Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist and the Chief Science Officer of the SENS Foundation. The editor of Rejuvenation Research, the world’s only peer-reviewed journal focused on intervention in aging, he is an advocate of research seeking answers to how molecular and cellular metabolic damage brings about aging and ways humans can intervene to repair and/or obviate that damage.
The central goal of Aubrey de Grey’s work is the expedition of developing a true cure for human aging. In his view, the main obstacle to developing such technology is the position of biogerontology at the boundary between basic science and medicine. He believes that the fundamental knowledge necessary to develop truly effective anti-aging medicine mostly exists, but the goal-directed frame of mind that is best suited to turning research findings into tools is very different from the curiosity-driven ethos that generated those findings in the first place.
Project
Aubrey de Grey is passionate about his research on aging. He claims he has drawn a roadmap to defeat biological aging. He provocatively proposes that the first human beings who will live to 1,000 years old have already been born.
Thoughts
Aubrey de Grey thinks about saving lives - lots of lives - by truly defeating aging.
Aubrey De Grey has been a guest on 1 episode.
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88: Ending Aging - Aubrey De Grey
January 20th, 2020 | Season 5 | 46 mins 3 secs
change the world, future technology, live longer, stop aging
Aubrey De Grey is a biomedical gerontologist based in the UK and California, USA. Aubrey is the Chief Science Officer of SENS Foundation, a California-based charity dedicated to combating the aging process. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Rejuvenation Research, the world highest-impact peer-reviewed journal focused on intervention in aging.
Aubrey shares his story of how he came to be a biologist from being destined to be a pianist according to his mother in the beginning and later choosing programming out of a wish to make more of a contribution to the progress of mankind.