Talk by Dr. Aubrey de Grey

Aubrey de Grey will give a talk entitled "Biological Immortality, Fact or Fiction?" which will take place on Tuesday, October 21th at 7:00PM in Building 420 Room 040. (This is the basement of the Psychology building, near the north-west corner of the Quad, facing the Oval.)

Aubrey de Grey is a leading geneticist and gerontologist whose life's work is to defeat biological aging. He contends, however, that there is a major barrier that keeps the scientific community as a whole from rationally investigating the prevention of aging and death: that is, the cultural tradition that death is not like a disease and thus shouldn't be "fixed", and that it is even a good thing. Advocates and skeptics alike are welcome to join Dr. de Grey for a talk about how he is investigating the development of medical treatments that repair the body faster than it breaks down, and, were that to succeed, about how we as a species might deal with the consequences of biological immortality. For more information about Dr. de Grey's research and philosophy, see his interview on the Colbert Report, his TED Talk, and this Technology Review Article.