In his youth, current Durham, NC, resident Gary Cantor learned a love for the medical field from the television. But a love of research, which became his lifelong passion and pursuit that he studies today at UNC Chapel Hill, that emerged from a YouTube video of his mentor biomedical gerontologist Dr. Aubrey De Grey who researched longevity in humans. Cantor was fascinated and held onto those ideas, even thanking De Grey for giving him a true purpose in life and career once he reached graduate school. Today, Gary Cantor studies research, DNA and similar ideas in the Genetics and Molecular Biology Department of UNC Chapel Hill as a fourth year PhD candidate.
