Aubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey (/dəˈɡr/; born 20 April 1963[6])[7] is an English author and biomedical gerontologist.[8][9][10][11] He is currently the Chief Science Officer of the SENS Research Foundation and VP of New Technology Discovery at AgeX Therapeutics, Inc.[12][2] He is editor-in-chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research, author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging(2007). He is known for his view that medical technology may enable human beings alive today to live indefinitely.[13]

De Grey’s research focuses on whether regenerative medicine can prevent the aging process.[14] He works on the development of what he calls “Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence” (SENS), a collection of proposed techniques to rejuvenate the human body and stop aging. To this end, he has identified seven types of molecular and cellular damage caused by essential metabolic processes. SENS is a proposed panel of therapies designed to repair this damage.[15]

De Grey is an international adjunct professor of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology,[16] a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America,[17] the American Aging Association, and the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.[18] He has been interviewed in recent years in a number of news sources, including CBS 60 Minutes, the BBCThe New York TimesFortune MagazineThe Washington PostTEDPopular ScienceThe Colbert ReportTime and the Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe. He is also a member of Flooved advisory board.