David Gems FRS is a pre-eminent British geneticist who has focused on research into ageing and age-related disease over the last 40 years. He is Professor of Biology of Ageing at

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

where he is also co-founder and Research Director of the Institute of Healthy Ageing. His work concerns understanding aging through the genetics of ''

C. elegans ''Caenorhabditis elegans'' () is a free-living transparent nematode about 1 mm in length that lives in temperate soil environments. It is the type species of its genus. The name is a blend of the Greek ''caeno-'' (recent), ''rhabditis'' (r ...

''."''C. elegans'' Ageing Laboratory"
accessed November 21, 2010.

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Blue death: The frontiers of ageing research
Video in which Gems discusses his work

Biogerontologists 1960 births Living people Alumni of the University of Sussex British geneticists Academics of University College London {{UK-scientist-stub