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 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. References External links Blue death: The frontiers of ageing research Video in which Gems discusses his work David Gems Profile, Gems Laboratory Biogerontologists 1960 births Living people Alumni of the University of Sussex British geneticists Academics of University College London