Walt is an active participant, leader, founder, volunteer or early investor in a number of longevity-related organizations, including The SENS Foundation, Heales, Yuvan Research, DataBETA Research Study, Austin Biotec, Oisin Biotechnologies, Repair Biotechnologies, Demonpore (aka: Molecular Reality), VivaFina, the American Longevity Alliance, and the ‘Younging’ project led by Vince Giuliano. Creator of the SleeProne system for prone rest, and the Ziesta face pillow, and primary author of two biomedical patents.  He was in the original cohort of Intervene Immune’s TRIIM (Thymus Regeneration, Immunorestoration and Insulin Mitigation) trials to regrow the thymus, and (pending) in Dr. Dobri Kiprov’s TPE (Therapeutic Plasma Exchange) trials.

Now retired as a hired employee, Walt earned an MSEE, and worked four decades in industry, mostly as a biomedical engineer, especially focused on failure analysis, product development, quality assurance, regulatory support, manufacturing, etc.  He has helped rear eight foster children, in addition to his natural son, and spent decades as a political activist, bee keeper, and cultivator of unusual fruits.