Aubrey de Grey

Aubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey born 20 April 1963 is an English author and theoretician in the field of gerontology and the Chief Science Officer of the SENS Foundation He is editorinchief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging 1999 and coauthor of Ending Aging 2007 De Greys 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 SENS a tissuerepair strategy intended to rejuvenate the human body and 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 designed to repair this damage An article about SENS published in the viewpoint section of EMBO Reports by 28 scientists concluded that none of de Greys therapies has ever been shown to extend the lifespan of any organism let alone humans  The SENS Foundation of which de Grey was a cofounder seems to agree with the EMBO Report as it states If you want to reverse the damage of aging right now Im afraid the simple answer is you cant   Nonetheless De Grey argues that this reveals a serious gap in understanding between basic scientists and technologists and between biologists studying aging and those studying regenerative medicine  The 15member Research Advisory Board of his own SENS Foundation have signed an endorsement of the plausibility of the SENS approach De Grey is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America the American Aging Association the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and an adviser to the Singularity 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