Michael Rae

Research Assistant, Methuselah Foundation

Michael Rae is a Research Assistant to Aubrey de Grey, chief science officer of the Methuselah Foundation. He is 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, along with contributing to the book Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime. Much of his work with the Foundation has been devoted to elucidating the SENS platform for anti-aging biomedicine for a popular audience. His undergraduate minor was in biology.

Between 1999 and early 2005, he worked in R&D in the nutraceutical industry, where he was instrumental in shifting company focus into novel molecules with the potential to impact primary and secondary aging. 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 seeks to document the feasibility of Calorie restriction in humans and the potential human translatability of the anti-aging effects observed in laboratory organisms.