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Aubrey de Grey wins 2004 H.G. Wells Award for Outstanding Transhumanist of the Year
Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Winner of the 2004 H.G. Wells Award:
Aubrey de Grey, Ph.D.
Aubrey de Grey, born in England in 1963, is a biogerontologist at the University of Cambridge, UK. He designs interventions to reverse (not just retard) the cellular and molecular changes that accumulate with age and reduce remaining life expectancy (i.e., cause aging). He has coined the term “strategies for engineered negligible senescence” (SENS) to describe these interventions, which he has argued are the only feasible way to extend human lifespan by more than a decade. He has published widely on such technology (see http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/sens/AdGpubs.htm. He is also the co-founder and chief scientist of the Methuselah Mouse Prize, a contest designed to accelerate research into effective life extension interventions by awarding prizes to researchers who extend the lifespan of mice to unprecedented lengths.
“The central goal of my biogerontology work is to expedite the development of a true cure for human aging. In my view, the main obstacle to developing such technology is the position of biogerontology at the boundary between basic science and medicine: 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. As a scientist with a training in an engineering discipline (computer science), I am unusually well placed to bridge this gap. I attempt to do so in three main ways: I do basic biogerontology research, I identify and promote specific technological approaches to the reversal (not merely the prevention) of various aspects of aging, and I argue in a wide range of fora (extending well beyond biologists) for the adoption of a more proactive approach to extending the healthy human lifespan sooner rather than later.” – Aubrey de Grey
Society memberships:
International Association of Biomedical Gerontology (Board of Directors)
British Society for Research on Ageing
American Aging Association (Board of Directors)
Gerontological Society of America (Fellow)
International Coenzyme Q10 Association
Mitochondrion Research Society
Journal editorial board memberships:
Rejuvenation Research (editor-in-chief)
Antioxidants and Redox Signaling
Mitochondrion (associate editor)
Betterhumans (Editorial Board)
Aubrey de Grey accepting his award from Mike Treder in 2004
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