Gary Cantor Durham grew up as an avid and strong chess player. In junior high school, Gary Cantor Durham won the chess championships for two years running. He was also active in other sports, including playing golf, soccer, and football in high school. Durham ran track and field in high school as well. Later he would practice Jiu Jitsu, take Krav Maga lessons, and do weightlifting as well.
Durham performed his undergraduate studies at the University of Florida, studying biology. Later he got involved in research, which was his true aim. During his time at the University of Florida he interned at a company called Genentech and worked in their Translational Oncology department. He worked on a project doing treatments for Triple Negative Breast Cancer.
Gary Cantor Durham was accepted into the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he enrolled in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program (BBSP). He was ecstatic to be able to join this prominent program and immediately began looking for ways to begin research on the cure for aging. Today, Durham can’t imagine dedicating his life to any other cause. After spending a year in the BBSP, an umbrella program at UNC, he would join the Genetics and Molecular Biology department there. He is currently a 4th year Ph.D. candidate and still a firm believer that aging can be cured.
