David Gems, Professor of biogerontology at University College London, giving a talk entitled "A cure for ageing", on the Humans Stage, at New Scientist Live 2019
Ageing is now the main cause of disease and death worldwide, including cardiovascular disease, cancer and lung disease. Despite this, the nature of ageing and its causes remains one of the great unsolved mysteries in medical science. One approach to understand ageing is to study its mechanisms in simple, short-lived creatures such as nematode worms and fruit flies. This has led not only to breakthroughs in our understanding of ageing, but also to methods to slow down the ageing process and increase late-life health. Could solving ageing in short-lived animals provide the means to intervene in human ageing? David Gems is a scientist at the Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London. He has a BSc in biochemistry from Sussex University, and a PhD in genetics from Glasgow University. He was a postdoc at Imperial College, and the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA, before founding his own research group at UCL in 1997 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow. The aims of his research are to understand the causes of ageing, and identify general principles of pathophysiology for late-life diseases.
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