ISTOCK, CRUPHOTOBiohacker Aaron Traywick, who sparked controversy in February when he injected himself with an untested herpes vaccine, died on Sunday (April 29). He was 28.
The Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia confirmed in an email to LiveScience that Traywick was found dead in a spa room in DC. In a statement sent to Gizmodo reporter Kristen Brown and posted on her Twitter feed, the police department says Traywick’s body has been taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for an autopsy, but no evidence exists right now to suggest a relationship between his death and the vaccine he injected into himself in February.
Traywick was CEO of Ascendance, a biotech startup aiming to develop gene therapy treatments and immunizations for HIV and herpes. It is also working on a gene therapy for “human augmentation designed to preserve bone mineral density and maximize muscle mass and ...
