María Entraigues Alan
María Entraigues Alan is the Cofounder of the Alliance for Longevity Science, Arts & Entertainment (ALSAE) and was the longtime Director of Development of the Lifespan Research Institute, formerly the SENS Research Foundation. An Argentine-American singer, composer, and actress who performs as “Maria Maria”, she has spent more than two decades uniting longevity science with the arts as an advocate, fundraiser, and public communicator working to extend healthy human lifespan.
María cofounded ALSAE in 2025 — pronounced “all say” — a nonprofit that merges the innovative power of longevity science with the cultural influence of arts and entertainment to inspire a broad public movement for healthier, longer lives.
Drawing on her dual identity as a longtime leader in longevity and a lifelong artist, she built ALSAE to bring filmmakers, storytellers, and artists together with scientists, industry pioneers, and thought leaders, reframing aging research in popular culture away from dystopian tropes and toward a hopeful, science-supported vision. Read Meet ALSAE: Improving the Cultural Image of Longevity and Art Meets Science to Tackle Diseases of Aging.
Before founding ALSAE, María served from 2009 to 2025 as Director of Development — and earlier as Director of Outreach and Global Outreach Coordinator — at the SENS Research Foundation, the regenerative-medicine charity cofounded by our Dr. Aubrey de Grey, which later merged into the Lifespan Research Institute.
In that role, she drove fundraising, strategic partnerships, sponsorships, and public relations, securing major gifts, representing the organization at international conferences, and serving as one of the field’s most visible communicators for the idea that the diseases and disabilities of aging can be prevented, treated, and ultimately eradicated through biotechnology. Read Women in Longevity and the Renaissance of the SENS Research Foundation.
María’s work in the longevity field began at the Methuselah Foundation, where she served as Volunteer Program Manager between 2007 and 2009 and remains one of “The 300,” a group committed to advancing the technologies needed to extend healthy human life. Between 2016 and 2020, she cofounded Longevity Bridge and its subsidiary Longevity Bridge Labs, which developed an IRB-approved research study on NAD+ biomarkers and a repeatable assay measuring 23 different metabolites. The lab was later acquired by Longevity Diagnostics Research, which continues to develop the test.
She has also served as a board member of the International Longevity Alliance and, in 2022, joined the Scientific Advisory Board of Afrolongevity, which addresses longevity in Africa. In 2019, Aging Analytics named her one of the Top-50 Women Longevity Leaders. Watch Maria Entraigues Abramson’s abbreviated presentation @RAADfest 2023 and ¿Por qué debemos acabar con la vejez?
A professional singer and composer since childhood, María began performing in Argentina, where she appeared on the television program Supermingo alongside Juan Carlos Altavista. She toured as a vocalist with Alejandro Lerner — appearing on three of his albums — and has performed or recorded with artists including Luis Miguel, Alejandro Sanz, Ricky Martin, Pepe Aguilar, and Colin Hay, among many others, joining Luis Miguel’s Cómplices Tour between 2008 and 2009.
In 1992 she moved to Boston on a scholarship to study Voice Performance and Composition at the Berklee College of Music. Through her company Sound Barrier, LLC, which she cofounded and led as President between 2002 and 2008, she produced and recorded more than 40 albums and contributed to numerous film and television scores.
Her film work includes songwriting and composition for A Walk in the Clouds (1995), directed by Alfonso Arau, with whom she went on to collaborate on several further films, as well as Rush Hour 3 and A Beautiful Life.
She received two awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), including a 2005 award for co-writing Luchare Por Tu Amor for the soundtrack of Zapata, and she composed the music for the 2010 Italian comedy The Trick in the Sheet (L’imbroglio nel lenzuolo), in which she also appeared, singing Quando me’n vo’ from Puccini’s La bohème.
A voting member of The Recording Academy (the Grammys) since 1997, María has written a monthly column on voice and singing for the Spanish-language magazine Músico Pro, published by Music Maker Publications, and her interpretation of the works of Carlos Gardel was praised in Global Rhythm. In May 2025, she performed in Buenos Aires at an event honoring designer Roberto Piazza’s 50-year career, attended by Argentine President Javier Milei. Read her Front and Center: Singer, Composer, Pilot, Global Outreach Coordinator at SENS Research Foundation profile.
María is also a licensed private pilot, certified by the Federal Aviation Administration in 2009. Between 2008 and 2013, as a flight-training business partner with American Aviation, she owned and managed three aircraft based at Van Nuys Airport, leasing them back for flight training. She first took up flying out of Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, California to overcome a fear of flying, and later worked as a pilot on the set of Jackass 3D (2010). She is a longtime advocate for space exploration.
Between 2007 and 2010, María served as cultural attaché to the Consulate General of Argentina in Los Angeles and to the Los Angeles Consular Corps, overseeing the Cultural Affairs Department, creating and managing events such as the Argentina New Cinema Film Festival at the Egyptian Theater with the American Cinematheque, and serving concurrently as Director of Events for the Dean of the Consular Corps.
She studied Voice Performance and Composition at the Berklee College of Music, completed the International Baccalaureate in Life Sciences at the Hamilton Institute, and in 2024 earned an Authentic Leadership Certification from Harvard University.
Born in Buenos Aires, María is of Italian and Spanish heritage and a naturalized U.S. citizen who lives in Los Angeles with her husband and collaborator, Lifeboat Foundation Board Member Gary Jay Alan, also a private pilot. She is fluent in English, Spanish, and Italian.
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