Longevity Expert Aubrey de Grey Comes to Baltimore to Discuss the End of Aging

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For Immediate Release: 9.13.2011

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THE FUTURIST magazine
Director of Communications
The World Future Society
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On October 12, Aubrey de Grey, a biomedical gerontologist based in Cambridge, UK. will discuss prospects for extending the human life span indefinitely at the Community College of Baltimore, an event sponsored by THE FUTURIST magazine.

De Grey is the Chief Science Officer of SENS Foundation, a California-based charity dedicated to combating the aging process. He is also editor-in-chief of Rejuvenation Research, a peer-reviewed journal focused on intervention in aging. He received his BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1985 and 2000, respectively. He's also author of the bestselling book Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime.

Dr. de Grey will explain: (1) why therapies that can add 30 healthy years to the remaining life span of the typical 60-year-old may well arrive within the next few decades, and (2) why those who benefit from such therapies will very probably continue to benefit from progressively improved therapies indefinitely and will thus avoid debilitation or death from age-related causes at any age.

Where and When is the Event?

This event will take place on October 12 at 6 p.m. at the J-137 Lecture Hall, Essex Campus, Community College of Baltimore, 7201 Rossville Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21237-3899. Register here

Sponsors:

THE FUTURIST is a bimonthly magazine published continuously since 1967 by the World Future Society and is a principal benefit of membership. The magazine is also available on newsstands coast to coast in the United States. The focus of THE FUTURIST is innovation, creative thinking, and emerging trends in the social, economic, environmental, and technological areas.

The Community College of Baltimore Community Book Connection:
Each year the college selects a book that it recommends to the community. Students are urged to read the book, and faculty at the Community College of Baltimore are urged to include it or selections from it in their courses. A series of cultural and academic activities—films, plays, dance performances, debates, panels, and lectures—are organized to support the project. The goals of the Community Book Connection are to enhance student and community learning, to strengthen our common human and intellectual bonds; and to demonstrate the many ways that classroom learning is deeply connected to our lives in the everyday world.

This year's chosen book is Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. This event coincides with that selection.

To learn more, contact:
Patrick Tucker
Deputy Editor
THE FUTURIST magazine
Director of Communications
THE WORLD FUTURE SOCIETY
Ptucker@wfs.org
443-756-4205