Aubrey de Grey Keynote Speaker

Dr Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist based in Mountain View, California, USA.

He served as Chief Science Officer of the SENS Research Foundation (2009–2021), a California-based 501(c)(3) biomedical research charity that performs and funds laboratory research dedicated to combating the aging process.

He was Editor-in-Chief of Rejuvenation Research (2004–2022), the world’s highest-impact peer-reviewed journal focused on intervention in aging, and was VP of New Technology Discovery at AgeX Therapeutics, a biotechnology startup developing new therapies in the field of biomedical gerontology.

His research interests encompass the characterisation of all the types of self-inflicted cellular and molecular damage that constitute mammalian aging and the design of interventions to repair and/or obviate that damage.

Dr. de Grey is a Fellow of both the Gerontological Society of America and the American Aging Association, and sits on the editorial and scientific advisory boards of numerous journals and organisations. He is a highly sought-after speaker who gives 40-50 invited talks per year at scientific conferences, universities, companies in areas ranging from pharma to life insurance, and to the public.

He received his BA in computer science and PhD in biology from the University of Cambridge.