Michael R. Rose, PhD is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of California, Irvine. He has been studying the biology of aging since 1976. He has received several scientific prizes, including the Busse Prize from the World Congress of Gerontology in 1997 and the inaugural 2019 Bacon Prize for thought leadership in the field of aging. Together with his many students and colleagues, he has published more than three hundred academic articles and eleven academic books, including the frequently cited “Evolutionary Biology of Aging”, published in 1991. His latest book is "Conceptual Breakthroughs in the Evolutionary Biology of Aging." Co-authored with Kenneth R. Arnold, it was published by Academic Press in 2023.