AT A GLANCE
Institute name and description: SENS Research Foundation. We are a US- based charity (with a UK subsidiary) that pursues regenerative medicine solutions to the ill-health of old age: not just slowing age-related decline but actually reversing it.
Main Contact:
And if the anti-ageing process was proven to
work how would we choose who underwent it? “There wouldn’t need to be a choice. It would be
Aubrey de Grey Dr. Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist based in Cambridge, UK and Mountain View, California, USA, and is the Chief Science Officer of SENS Foundation, a California-based 501(c)(3) charity dedicated to combating the aging process.
Contact: Tel: +1 650 938 6100 Email:
Aubrey@sens.org Web:
www.sens.org
available to everybody, irrespective of their ability to pay. There are simple reasons for this. It is going to be important in the same way that clean water is important. Economically it will pay for itself really well. At the moment we have to spend an enormous amount of money keeping sick people alive for a bit longer, so we wouldn’t be in that situation any more because people wouldn’t be getting that way. And younger people would be more productive because they wouldn’t have to spend time looking after their sick parents. The elderly will not be frail so they will continue to contribute wealth to society. It would be economically suicidal for any country to drag its feet and make the treatments only available to the rich.” The big question is, when will such treatments
be available? Dr de Grey says they are ‘definitely more than 15 or 20 years away’ and he says there is a ‘50 per cent chance’ of getting them within 25 years. “The exact time frame is extremely speculative,”
he adds. “I’m 49 and I’m doing my best to stay healthy so I have a 50/50 of making the cut, but I don’t know if I will. But that’s not what gets me up in the morning. It’s the humanitarian aspect. One hundred thousand people are dying every day from ageing, so every day I can bring forward the defeat of ageing I am saving 100,000 lives. It doesn’t matter to me whether I’m one of those lives or not.”
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“Yes, we will all wither and die one day. That’s just how it is. � Or is it?”
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