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HOW TO LIVE FOREVER
with Dr Aubrey De Grey

THE VENUE FOR TONIGHT'S TALK HAS NOW CHANGED TO
BLACKS MEMBERS CLUB AT 67 DEAN STREET - SOHO

Tuesday 16th September 2014
Doors open at 6:30 pm, Talk commences at 7:00 pm

Cambridge scientist Dr Aubrey De Grey has a mission: he wants to stop you growing old. Come and meet the man who believes there are people alive today who will live to be 500. Could you be one of them? Would you want to be?

The founder of SENS, a research foundation dedicated to the eradication of ageing, Dr de Grey will explain how, given sufficient funding and vision, existing technologies could be developed to give humans previously unimaginable lifespans. Join us to explore the issues - scientific, moral and psychological - of the infinite life.

Dr Aubrey De Grey
Dr Aubrey de Grey is an English author and theoretician in the field of gerontology and the Chief Science Officer of the SENS Research Foundation. He is editor-in-chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research, author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging (2007).

De Grey is an international adjunct professor of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, the American Aging Association, and the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

Tickets £20 including a glass of prosecco. Please click here to buy.

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16th September 2014
How to Live Forever with Dr Aubrey De Grey

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In 1863, a French wine merchant called Daniel Nicholas Thévenon and his wife arrived in England in a bid to escape the clutches of creditors in Paris. So began a story that grew out of bankruptcy and culminated in the creation of Regent Street’s Café Royal: a truly remarkable and original establishment with what was considered at one point to have the greatest wine cellar in the world and was reputed for its excellent hospitality, dining and entertainment. 

Frequented by writers and artists such as Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, the conversations, inspirations and discussions at ‘The Café’ were profound. Arthur Conan Doyle, H G Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Rudyard Kipling, W B Yeats, Walter Sickert and James McNeill Whistler were all patrons. Distinguished figures such as Winston Churchill, Augustus John, D H Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Noël Coward, Jacob Epstein and Graham Greene were also often seen.