Aubrey de Grey

Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist based in Cambridge, United Kingdom, and Mountain View, California. He is recognized for his work in combating the aging process and is a frequent speaker at events focused on the intersection of science, ethics, and longevity.

De Grey serves as the Chief Science Officer of SENS Research Foundation, a California-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting therapies to reverse aging. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Rejuvenation Research, a leading peer-reviewed journal focused on intervention in aging.

De Grey is best known for developing Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS), a comprehensive plan for repairing the accumulating molecular and cellular damage that constitutes mammalian aging. SENS breaks aging down into seven major classes of damage and identifies detailed approaches to addressing each one.

Videos by Aubrey de Grey

Why it is a sin NOT to strive to develop medicine that eliminates aging

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Aubrey de Grey

Why it is a sin NOT to strive to develop medicine that eliminates aging

2013.04.13

Aubrey de Grey delivers a keynote arguing that aging is humanity’s largest problem—responsible for two-thirds of all deaths worldwide—and that a maintenance-based approach to repair accumulated cellular damage offers the most promising path to comprehensive preventative medicine for age-related diseases. He outlines his SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) framework, which identifies seven major classes of damage and corresponding repair strategies, and addresses common objections including overpopulation concerns and fears of extended ill health. De Grey contends that from both secular and religious perspectives, tolerating aging when medicine could address it constitutes a moral failure—a sin of inaction equivalent to hastening one’s own death—and urges the audience to become advocates for this work.