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SCIENTIFIC ADVISORS
Leonard Hayflick, Ph.D.
Professor of Anatomy University of California, San Francisco
Relationship to the Project:
Dr. Hayflick, best known for the Hayflick Limit showing that cultured normal cells have a
limited capacity for replication, wrote the popular book, “How and Why We Age”,
in August 1994. Mr. Guerin read the book with interest a year later. He especially noted
the chapter entitled “Some Animals Age, Some Do Not”. It was the first time Mr.
Guerin had read this information from a scientific source, although later he came across
detailed information on this phenomenon coined “negligible senescence” by Caleb
Finch at USC. Mr. Guerin started the project that came to be known as the Centenarian
Species and Rockfish Project in August 1995 as a result of this information.
Later on in 1995 the Director met Dr. Hayflick at a Gerontological Society of America
meeting. Mr. Guerin told him of his background in Project Management, and his interest in
assisting research in this area. He asked Dr. Hayflick who was researching these
long-lived animals, and the reply was “Nobody is, but they should be!” From this
point forward Dr. Hayflick has served as a Scientific Advisor to this project. His
biography is belowBiography: Leonard Hayflick Biography
CV: Leonard Hayflick
CV
Aubrey D.N.J. de Grey
Biography: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/sens/AdGbio.htm
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