Aubrey de Grey, is a biomedical gerontologist and Chairman, Chief Science Officer, and co-founder of the Methuselah Foundation, a non-profit, volunteer-driven research organization whose focus is on repairing the molecular damage that accumulates with time at the root of age-related dysfunction. His major research interests are the role and etiology of oxidative damage in mammalian aging, including both mitochondrial and extracellular free radical production and damage, and the design of interventions to retard and reverse the age-related accumulation of oxidative and other damage. He has published extensively on these and other areas of gerontology. He has been interviewed in recent years in many news sources, including CBS 60 Minutes, Technology Review, the BBC, The New York Times, and Popular Science, and is the editor-in-chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research. He is also the creator of the Methuselah Mouse Prize, a contest designed to accelerate research into effective life extension interventions by awarding multi-million dollar prizes to researchers who extend the lifespan of mice to unprecedented lengths. Prior to his work in cellular and molecular biology, de Grey studied computer science at Cambridge, where he received his B.A. in 1985.

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