SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) is his project to promote that sort of thing.
"IF YOU'RE AN ENGINEER, COMPUTER SCIENTIST, ETC: learn some biology. I started making really well-received contributions to biogerontology after I'd been reading the literature for TWO MONTHS — no kidding. Maybe I was lucky, but maybe it was just that scientists really need input from people with a different training and mindset. Don't take the easy way out of thinking that you can't help because you haven't got the right expertise. The best way for someone with mathematical or computer training to get into biology is just to dive in and not be scared of how many facts there are. Start with a graduate-level cell biology textbook, such as "Molecular Biology of the Cell" by Alberts et al. (If the phrase "graduate-level" scares you, another book by some of the same authors and targeted at undergraduates may be a good stepping stone: it's called "Essential Cell Biology" and it has been highly praised. It's important to learn masses of biology — certainly the whole of graduate-level animal biology — because aging is a chaotic interaction of lots of system failures going on all together and you won't understand it well enough to make a useful contribution if you only understand selected bits of how we work when we're young."
mp3 conference tapes If you watch the C4 documentary below you will hear that the university de Grey was working at were not impressed with a non academic member of staff (with a relevant PhD) using their servers to host academic talks... so scroll to the bottom of the web archive page ;)
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Why We Age and How We Can Avoid It TEDTalk
Do You Want To Live Forever? C4 documentary