Hi.  If you're reading this page it's probably because I've given you my business card, or scribbled down the address on a napkin, or you jumped here from my blog, or followed a link on my email, or read something scribbled on a wall somewhere.  Whatever the starting point for your journey, you may well know that I co-founded SENS Foundation and acted as its Executive Vice President until September 2011.

There's a good chance you're aware that SENS Foundation works to develop, promote and ensure widespread access to rejuvenation biotechnologies which comprehensively address the disabilities and diseases of aging. 

I'm guessing you won't be overly surprised to learn that our vision is a world in which all people have the opportunity to experience life free from the diseases and disabilities of aging. 

Nor are you likely to be aghast to hear that the Foundation catalyses progress toward a comprehensive panel of rejuvenation biotechnologies through its growing global networks and collaborations, and through key research projects, executed in its own Research Center and numerous affiliated universities, research organizations and other centres of excellence.

So where to click next? Well, you could kick things off with this post, which I wrote to cover our mission, message and more.  For all things rejuvenation biotechnology, and to read more about our work, you could start at the home page of SENS Foundation.  If you want to jump right in to our research activities, there's an entire chunk (technical term) of the website dedicated to research, including pages on our own Research Center (which earns the right to its American English spelling through its location in California).  Or, you could find out more about our Academic Initiative - introducing the next generation of researchers to rejuvenation biotechnologies.  You could even follow us on twitter (@senstweet), or 'like' our Facebook page.  And if you want to make a real difference with only a few clicks (and a little bit of alphanumeric entry), you could donate.

If you want to know about the history of the Foundation and our people, there's a section for that (although not an 'app', yet).  My co-founders have their biographies available, too.

There is, I suppose, a chance that you want to know more about me, personally, for reasons of your own.   There's a quick biography at the end of the page.

The really important things are all on the SENS Foundation website: the things which will allow us to maintain youthful vigour and health; which will provide a comprehensive solution to the diseases and disabilities of old age; which will address specific diseases such as atherosclerosis, macular degeneration and Alzheimer’s; which will define a third way in medicine, providing health professionals with new intervention strategies for treating their patients; which will allow a move away from increasingly niche and expensive treatment development based on metabolic or pathologic interventions; and which will deliver socio-economic benefits, reducing social welfare costs and extending economically-productive lifespan.

However, if you do want to leave this site, my personal blog can be found over at Science Doll.  It has its own Facebook page, and a twitter feed (@scidoll), and, as the site says, gives me an opportunity to talk about science and anything else I damn well please (including the inside scoop on the Foundation, in many cases).

Anyway, thanks for heading to this page, and I hope your onward journey convinces you of what I already know, that SENS Foundation is worthy of your support.

Dr Sarah Marr is a co-founder of SENS Foundation, and acted as its Executive Vice President until September 2011. She is also on the Advisory Board of the Lifeboat Foundation.

Sarah has a Bachelor’s Degree in Law, from the University of Oxford, and another in Theoretical Physics, from Imperial College London, where she also built the prototype web portal for the European grid computing network of the Large Hadron Collider.

Her postgraduate studies include a Master’s Degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester, specializing in the nature of cultural misappropriation in Western subcultures and concepts of the body, the self and ‘belonging’. She has a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Imperial College London, covering the quantum and relativistic properties of black holes in discrete spacetimes.

Her previous position was as the Head of Operations of the UK political think-tank, Demos, where she also co-authored a global survey of public service design practices.

In the 1990s she spent several years as a business and IT consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), working on a variety of projects from systems analysis to the streamlining of European, Middle Eastern and Asian operations.

As well as writing about, and presenting, the Foundation’s work, she has previously been awarded a place on the Science Writing Project, run by The Arvon Foundation and the 1851 Commission, popularizing science concepts through their appearance in Shakespeare’s works. She has written for the Times Higher Education Supplement, and worked with artists from London’s Royal College of Art, providing publicity copy and reviews.

She is a keen photographer, with her last show, Pause, showing in London, in October, 2009.

She hates talking about herself, and hates it even more when it’s in the third person.