Graduate and Postdoctoral Researchers
Researcher, SENS Foundation
Ben Zealley works as a Research Assistant to Dr de Grey and as Assistant Editor of Rejuvenation Research. He has a long-standing interest in human aging and is a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied biochemistry. In addition to SENS, he is interested in most other aspects of human enhancement technology, particularly human/computer interfaces, and in nanotechnology.
Ben is also the leader of SENS Foundation's web team, and is chiefly responsible for the implementation and maintenance of our new site.
Ben is also the leader of SENS Foundation's web team, and is chiefly responsible for the implementation and maintenance of our new site.
Researcher, SENS Foundation
Michael Rae is a Research Assistant to Dr de Grey and a popular science writer with a strong focus on health and aging. He is the author of five scientific articles and commentaries in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Much of his work has been devoted to elucidating the SENS platform for anti-aging biomedicine for a popular audience. His undergraduate minor was in biology. He is a long-time member and one-time Board Member of the Calorie Restriction Society, a main contributor to the Society's "How-to Guide", and was core scientific investigator with the CR Society Cohort Study, which sought to document the feasibility of Calorie Restriction in humans and the potential human translatability of the anti-aging effects observed in laboratory organisms.
Research Associate
Silvia Gravina, PhD received her doctorate in Oncology and Experimental Pathology at Bologna University&Ordway Research Institute Cancer Center, with the thesis "p21(CDKN1A) and DNA damage response in aging and longevity." She is now working on the OncoSENS epimutations project with Dr Vijg at the Department of Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Jacques Mathieu is a research scientist in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is currently working on methods to reduce the intracellular accumulation of 7-ketocholesterol that occurs in certain age-related diseases.
Research Associate
Megan Smithey received her PhD in Immunology from Oregon Health and Science University for research into the interplay between lymphocyte subsets responding to infection. Dr Smithey carried out her post-doctoral training at the Portland VA Medical Center focusing on pathogen-based vaccines designed to stimulate the immune system to fight cancer. She is currently a research associate in the Department of Immunobiology at the University of Arizona where she is working with Dr Nikolich-Zugich on the ApoptoSENS research project.