LONGEVITYALLIANCE - Key Persons
Adrian has been a Founding Member and a Board Member of the International Longevity Alliance. He has helped setup a robust IT platform and has been accompanying numerous projects for healthy life extension. Adrian is undertaking studies in philosophy and theology.
Alexander is the founder of "Gesellschaft für Gesundes Altern und Prävention" and one of the first members of Heales. He is also a member of the "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Alterungsforschung". Trained in Law, he worked for a short time at Freshfields, Bruckhaus, Deringer LLP, then at some renown think-tanks before joining the staff of the European Parliament. In Brussels he focussed on the Active and Healthy Ageing through Europe initiative - achieving two more healthy years of life expectancy for every European citizen. At RWTH Aachen University, he coordinated the Profile Area - Medical Science & Technology and the activities for the European Institute for Innovation and Technology Health. Alexander is also active in politics, as city councillor and member of a regional parliament.
Anton Kulaga (Ukraine). Founder of H+Ukraine, core-developer of the open-source scientific research platform Denigma, initiator of the joint SENS Foundation and Kiev Institute of Gerontology (Ukraine) crowdfunding project "I am a little mouse", aimed to test several geroprotectors in mice. Specialist in programming, data visualization, semancit web, and networking. Key-vision: doing, learning-by-doing, teaching to the crowd, and crowd-sourcing
Dr. de Grey is the biomedical gerontologist who researched the idea for and founded SENS Research Foundation. He received his BA in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Cambridge in 1985 and 2000, respectively. Dr. de Grey is Editor-in-Chief of Rejuvenation Research, is a Fellow of both the Gerontological Society of America and the American Aging Association, and sits on the editorial and scientific advisory boards of numerous journals and organizations.
Avi Roy (UK), PhD. President of the Biogerontology Research Foundation (BGRF), a UK-based charity founded to support ageing research and address the challenges of a rapidly ageing population. Avi is an Oxford-based biomedical scientist and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Sustainable Medical Innovation (CASMI) at the University of Oxford, and at the Institute for Translational Medicine at the University of Buckingham (BITM). Lastly, Avi is a longstanding champion of the public dissemination of science, and has organised over 370 talks, chaired 8 conferences and hosted 28 Nobel Prize winners. Recently, Avi launched the Big Data Science in Medicine Conference series (the first of its kind in Europe) and the Longevity Reporter, which has rapidly become the premier source for news about health and longevity.
Job Titles:
- Founder and President of IFS
Avinash K Singh (India). Founder and President of IFS (India Future Society), a non-profit organization in India promoting and advocating scientific research in future technology and longevity. Active researcher in the field of brain-machine interface. Key vision: there is always a way.
Daniel Wuttke (Germany), PhD. Initiator of open-source scientific research platform Denigma. Specialist in biochemistry, biology, molecular medicine, genomics, programming and networking. Currently Daniel worked at the SENS Research Foundation in California. Key vision: deciphering aging using existing knowledge and the digital intelligence.
Daria has been a Founding Member and a Board Member of the International Longevity Alliance (as a Chair of the Board of the Russian Regional Russian NGO "Council for Public Health and Demography"). She specialized on working with governments and advocacy, but also coordinates activities
David Latapie (France). Longevity… and health! That is why biology of aging has all its sense. Organiser, technologist, transhumanist thinker, David was an active member of Technoprog! Aside, David also has a deep knowledge of legal aspects for organisations and funding. Key vision: think far to build now. Sadly, he died in 2017.
Didier Coeurnelle (Belgium, Brussels). Co-chair of Heales (Healthy Life Extension Society), the largest non-profit organization in Continental Europe promoting and advocating scientific research into longevity and biogerontology. Vice-president of the French association AFT-Technoprog, that aims to spread the themes and questions related to technologies that could extend and enhance the lives of individuals and of humankind. Author of the book "Et si on arrêtait de vieillir! Réalité, enjeux et perspectives d'une vie en bonne santé beaucoup plus longue" (french). Active member of environmental movements for more than 20 years. Key vision: communicating.
Job Titles:
- Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Radiobiology
- Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Radiobiology and Gerontology Institute of Biology, Komi Sc
Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Radiobiology and Gerontology Institute of Biology, Komi Science Center of RAS. Author and co-author of many scientific articles covering wide range of topics, from genetics of aging to nutrigenomics. Author of the books "Aging and genes" (2008, in Russian), "120 years of life is just a beginning. How to defeat aging?" (2014, in Rissian), "How to overcome your age? 8 unique methods to reach healthy longevity" (2015, in Russian), "Potential geroprotectors" (2016, in Russian), co-author of the book "Lessons from Drosophila" (2015, in English).
Dr. Natasha Vita-More is an author, humanitarian, and innovator whose work focuses on longevity and regenerative generations. As a motivational speaker, she focuses on causes and solutions, while fostering meaningful acknowledgement of others' works who have aspired to identify human potential.
Natasha was the Lead Scientific Researcher on the Memory Project, which scientific breakthrough concerns long-term memory of C.elegans and cryonics (2015). As a proponent for mitigating aging, Natasha introduced the seminal field of human enhancement for longevity in academics. Her expertise in the field of ethics has produced high-level scholarship for undergrad and graduate students in the fields of computer science, cybersecurity, robotics, gaming, and business fields. As an entrepreneur, her experience within the domain of foresight studies has established principles and practices for assessing humanity's potential futures. She was the producer and Chair of the Progress Action Summit (2004) that hosted 10 renown experts to strategize a new burden of proof, which became "The Proactionary Principle". In 1997, Natasha originated the first whole-body prosthetic, a seminal innovation comprised of nanomedicine, AI, and robotics that spearheaded alternative bodies to biological degeneration.
Currently, she is a Senior Professor of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Ethics, and serves as the Executive Director of Humanity+. She is also a Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and author of numerous academic articles and books.
Edouard has been a Founding Member of the International Longevity Alliance, and then served as an ILA Board Member on behalf of French NGO "Longevite&Sante". Former epidemiology and biology of aging researcher at UCLA,the Pasteur Institute and Inserm, then life actuary specialised in biometric risks. President of the French branch ("Longévité Santé"). Member of Heales (Healthy Life Extension Society), European NGO based in Brussels. Strong supporter of GRG and Longecity. Co-author of a book called "Longevity Risk". Key vision: mouse lifespan tests and human statistics to find out what prolongs life and health.
Ilia Stambler (Israel, Rishon Lezion), PhD, is Director of Research and Development at Shmuel Harofe Geriatric Medical Center in Beer Yaakov, Israel (Affiliated to Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University); Chief Science Officer of "Vetek" (Seniority) - the Movement for Longevity and Quality of Life (Israel) and a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Science, Technology and Society, Bar Ilan University, Israel, where he received his PhD. His research has focused on the historical and social implications of aging and life extension research. He is also involved in mathematical modeling of aging and aging-related diseases (https://ec.europa.eu/eip/ageing/commitments-tracker/a3/quantified-longevity-guide-qlg_en). He is the author of the books A History of Life-extensionism in the Twentieth Century and Longevity Promotion: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (www.longevityhistory.com). He is actively involved in advocacy for aging and longevity research (www.longevityforall.org), and is chairman of the Israeli Longevity Alliance (http://www.longevityisrael.org/) and executive committee member of the International Society on Aging and Disease (http://www.isoad.org/). His papers have appeared in Progress in Neurobiology, Aging and Disease, Cancer Detection and Prevention, Rejuvenation Research, Current Aging Science, Global Aging, Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, Frontiers in Genetics, Geroscience, and other journals.
Job Titles:
- CEO at the Georgia Longevity Alliance
Jaba is a CEO at the Georgia Longevity Alliance, and a long term proponent of longevity. His credo is "Without life, we have nothing. We need eternal youth. And a immortality!". Jaba is a biogerontologist, and he currently leads fundamental and clinical research on aging.
Dr. de Magalhaes graduated in Microbiology in 1999 from the Escola Superior de Biotecnologia , Portugal, and obtained his PhD in 2004 from the University of Namur, Belgium. Following a postdoc with genomics pioneer Professor George Church at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, in 2008 Dr de Magalhaes was recruited to the University of Liverpool in the UK to develop his own group on genomic approaches to aging.
Now a senior lecturer, Dr de Magalhaes leads the Integrative Genomics of Ageing Group which focuses on understanding the genetic, cellular, and molecular mechanisms of aging. His research team are world-leaders in employing genomics and bioinformatics to study aging with pioneering work in studying gene networks of aging and in sequencing and analyzing genomes from long-lived species.
Martin Lipovšek, MPhil, is a Slovenian philosopher who is specializing in ethical and other philosophical questions concerning healthy life extension. In 2017 he established the Slovenian Society for Vital Life Extension. Since the beginning he is the president of the society. Its activities are organization of conferences, connecting people, public promotion of healthy longevity and small scientific studies. At the moment Martin Lipovšek is preparing philosophy PhD with the title: Transhuman Longevity and the Problem of Procrastination against the Background of Existential Decisions.
Michael earned his Ph.D at the the Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, CA, in 2000. He has worked in University of California, Berkeley, CA, since 2007 researching immortal DNA, aging and regeneration in mammalian stem cells. He has been instrumental in a number of key studies in regenerative medicine as well as teaching graduate stem cell theory and practice at UCB.
Paul Spiegel is a thought leader, an international speaker and a longtime activist in the fields of longevity and transhumanism. He is a board member of the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation, the American Longevity Alliance and Humanity Plus, and is a former board member of the International Longevity Alliance. He is a legal advisor to the U.S. Transhumanist Party the Lifeboat Foundation and the Brain Preservation Foundation, he is a member of Health Extension and carboncopies.org and he provides legal counsel for many longevity-related and transhumanist enterprises.
Paul is an attorney specializing in longevity biomedicine and has counseled and consulted for the longevity community since 2006. His San Francisco firm, Eclectic Law, provides general counsel services to startups and established companies in biotechnology, longevity medicine and other fields. He is founder of Libertas Biomedical, LLC, which seeks friendly offshore venues for companies to promote longevity research and treatment with greater freedom than is allowed in the United States or the European Union. As of October, 2019, he will serve the Republic of San Marino as Honorary Consul for California and three other Southwestern states.
Paul graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979, from Berkeley Law School in 1983, attended Harvard Law School, the University of Paris, Sorbonne, International Christian University in Tokyo and speaks 5 languages, including English, French, Spanish and Italian. Trained in international business law, he worked on Wall Street, on Montgomery Street and in Tokyo before entering private practice in San Francisco. Long an advocate of progressive ideas and legal causes, he has focused on longevity, transhumanism, regenerative medicine and the biology of aging.
Walter H. Crompton Walt is an active participant, leader, founder, volunteer or early investor in a number of longevity-related organizations, including The SENS Foundation, Heales, Yuvan Research, DataBETA Research Study, Austin Biotec, Oisin Biotechnologies, Repair Biotechnologies, Demonpore (aka: Molecular Reality), VivaFina, the American Longevity Alliance, and the ‘Younging' project led by Vince Giuliano. Creator of the SleeProne system for prone rest, and the Ziesta face pillow, and primary author of two biomedical patents. He was in the original cohort of Intervene Immune's TRIIM (Thymus Regeneration, Immunorestoration and Insulin Mitigation) trials to regrow the thymus, and (pending) in Dr. Dobri Kiprov's TPE (Therapeutic Plasma Exchange) trials. Now retired as a hired employee, Walt earned an MSEE, and worked four decades in industry, mostly as a biomedical engineer, especially focused on failure analysis, product development, quality assurance, regulatory support, manufacturing, etc. He has helped rear eight foster children, in addition to his natural son, and spent decades as a political activist, bee keeper, and cultivator of unusual fruits.