Anti-aging research pioneer Aubrey de Grey placed on leave over sexual harassment allegations
Aubrey de Grey, the jet-setting gerontologist who co-founded the SENS Research Foundation to discover ways to reverse the ravages of aging, has been been placed on leave by the foundation after being accused of sexual harassment by two prominent entrepreneurs in the field of healthy lifespan extension.
On Tuesday night, Laura Deming, the 27-year-old founder of the Longevity Fund, and Celine Halioua, the 26-year-old founder and CEO of Loyal, a biotech startup developing drugs to help dogs live longer, posted accounts on their blogs and to Twitter of experiences they had with de Grey as young scientists trying to gain a foothold in the field.
