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Occupation

Treasurer, Board Member

Biography

Kevin Perrott is the owner of Riverside Honda, the largest Honda recreational vehicle dealership in Canada. After twenty years of management he became a cancer survivor and shifted direction to academics to develop methods of curing cancer and other age-related diseases. He graduated from the University of Alberta in 2006 at the age of 43 with a double major in Biology and Chemistry. He then entered the PhD program and after completing two years studying the role of mitochondria in the process of aging in the nematode C. elegans, he shifted focus to the importance of the phenomenon of mammalian cellular senescence and its role in degenerative disease. Kevin is a consultant for the Biomedical Engineering Research and Results Initiative (BERRI) at the University of Alberta pursuing the construction of collaborations to accelerate the development of therapies able to restore function in aged individuals. In 2005 he became COO and a Board Member of the Methuselah Foundation, and Executive Director of the Methuselah Mouse Prize. He is also the Founder and CEO of AgeNet (Aging Research Network), a charity sponsoring research to maintain and restore function lost to degenerative disease. In the fall of 2008, AgeNet helped in founding the LifeStar Institute, an U.S. charity dedicated to raising awareness of the economic and social impact of of global aging, as well as founding SENS Foundation. Mr. Perrott continues to support the advance of aging research as the VP of the American Aging Association and through his research at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.

History

Member for

2 years 7 weeks

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Publication

• The Demographic and Biomedical Case for Late-Life Interventions in Aging