Dr. de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist based in Cambridge, UK, and is the Chief Science Officer of the SENS Foundation. His research interests encompass the etiology of all the accumulating and eventually pathogenic molecular 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 Strategies 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. A key aspect of SENS is that it can potentially extend healthy lifespan without limit, even though these repair processes will never be perfect, as the repair only needs to approach perfection rapidly enough to keep the overall level of damage below pathogenic levels. de Grey has termed this required rate of improvement of repair therapies “longevity escape velocity.”

Links:

http://www.sens.org/AdGbio.htm

See essays by this author:

Bootstrapping our way to an ageless future

See selected books by this author:

Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime