“I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the applic...” — Aubrey de Grey Quote

I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.

If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.

Basically, the body does have a vast amount of inbuilt anti-ageing machinery; it's just not 100% comprehensive, so it allows a small number of different types of molecular and cellular damage to happen and accumulate.

Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is.

I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.

Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.

If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

The aging process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over, and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.

I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?