David Sinclair is a Professor in the Department of Genetics, co-Director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research at Harvard Medical School, and a NY Times bestselling author of the book Lifespan: Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To. He's an Advisor to Alpha Wave. He is renowned for his work on understanding why we age and how to slow and reverse its effects.
David is co-founder of several biotechnology companies, including Sirtris Pharma (acquired by GSK), Genocea, Cohbar, Life Biosciences, MetroBiotech, ArcBio, and Liberty Biosecurity, and serves on the boards of several others. He has received over 25 awards and honors including The Merck Prize, The ASBMB Medal, The Genzyme Award, TIME100’s “most influential people in the world”, and TIME’s “Top 50 in healthcare.”
He is an inventor on approximately 50 patents and co-author more than 200 scientific papers. David obtained his Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from the University of New South Wales, Sydney and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before being hired as an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. In 2018, he became an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO).
