What ageing is & why it happensĪccording to De Grey, ageing is a combination of two processes-the life-long process that starts before we’re born, and the late-life process that kicks of in middle-age. In this episode of the Braincare podcast, Dr Aubrey de Grey shared with us his expert insight into all things to do with this so-called “inevitable” process.

He's since founded the nonprofit SENS, the world’s first organization dedicated to “curing” human ageing, not just age-related illnesses. He is also a member of Flooved advisory Board.Dr Aubrey de Grey is perhaps the world's foremost advocate of the provocative view that medical technology will one day allow humans to control the ageing process and live healthily into our hundreds-or even thousands.ĭe Grey has been arguing that immortality is theoretically possible since his first book, ‘The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging’, published in 1999. 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. SENS is a proposed panel of therapies designed to repair this damage.ĭe Grey is an international adjunct professor of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, the American Aging Association, and the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. To this end, he has identified seven types of molecular and cellular damage caused by essential metabolic processes. He works on the development of what he calls “Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence” (SENS), a collection of proposed techniques to rejuvenate the human body and stop aging.

He is known for his view that medical technology may enable human beings alive today to live to lifespans far in excess of any existing authenticated cases.ĭe Grey’s research focuses on whether regenerative medicine can thwart the aging process. He is editor-in-chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research, author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging (2007). Aubrey de Grey, Chief Science Officer & Co-Founder, SENS Research Foundation.Īubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey is a theoretician in the field of gerontology and the Chief Science Officer of the SENS Research Foundation.

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