In 2009, de Grey founded the nonprofit SENS, the world’s first organization dedicated to “curing” human aging, not just age-related diseases. He believes, for example, that the first person who will live to be 1,000 years old has most likely already been born. Unlike most scientists, he isn’t shy about making bold speculations. He delivers his message in seemingly unbroken paragraphs, stroking his dark brown wizard’s beard, which reaches below his navel. Since then, he’s been promoting his ideas from prominent platforms-the BBC, the pages of Wired, the TED stage. De Grey first gained notoriety in 1999 for his book The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging, in which he argued that immortality was theoretically possible. Now the 54-year-old’s long hair, tied back in a ponytail, is turning gray, a change that would be unremarkable if he weren’t one of the world’s most outspoken proponents of the idea that aging can be completely eradicated. De Grey drinks three or four pints of ale a day, and swears it hasn’t kept him from maintaining the same vigor he felt as a teenager in London. “Would you like one?” he offers hospitably. I find him sitting in his office, cracking open a bottle of Stone pale ale. I’ve come to speak to its chief science officer, Aubrey de Grey. on a pleasant weekday morning at SENS, a biotech lab in Mountain View, California. Aubrey de Grey says, “There’s no such thing as aging gracefully.”
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