The Emerging Futures of Education30 Juni 2020

11 – Dr Aubrey de Grey - Defeating ageing and the implications for learning

In Episode 11 Nick talks with Aubrey de Grey about:

•The biology of ageing – it’s just a medical problem
•Re-imagining our current mind sets on ageing
•Education and learning opportunities around re-imagining ageing
•Longevity escape velocity
•Possible implications on education and learning
•The pro-ageing trance
•Things will seem to move really slowly and then suddenly extremely rapidly

Bio for Podcast:

Dr. Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist based in Mountain View, California, USA, and is the Chief Science Officer of SENS Research Foundation, a California-based 501(c)(3) biomedical research charity that performs and funds laboratory research dedicated to combating the aging process. He is also VP of New Technology Discovery at AgeX Therapeutics, a biotechnology startup developing new therapies in the field of biomedical gerontology. In addition, he is Editor-in-Chief of Rejuvenation Research, the world’s highest-impact peer-reviewed journal focused on intervention in aging. He received his BA in computer science and Ph.D. in biology from the University of Cambridge. 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 (uncompensated) 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.
Email: aubrey@sens.org
Website: https://www.sens.org/

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