• Science Director of the European Longevity Institute.

    Biochemist, Professor of Gerontology and Biological Sciences, and Director of the Longevity Institute at the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and Director of the Oncology and Longevity Program at IFOM, Milan.

    Professor Longo earned a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from the University of North Texas; he holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1997, and completed post-doctoral training in the neurobiology of aging and Alzheimer’s disease at the University of Southern California.

    His research focuses on the analysis of multiple genetic mechanisms underlying aging and the identification of therapeutic strategies, including nutrition, to slow down or halt the onset of age-related diseases.

    Career award highlights include the 2010 Nathan Shock Lecture Award from the National Institute on Aging and the 2013 Vincent Cristofalo “Rising Star” Award for Research on Aging from the American Federation for Aging Research.

  • Romina Inés Cervigni, obtained a PhD from Open University in the United Kingdom focusing her attention on the field of oncology and a second level Masters in Nutrition and Dietetics. She has collaborated as a postdoctoral researcher with the National Research Committee (CNR) in Naples and the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan.

  • Professor of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Director, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa; Director, Transitional Care Unit, University Hospital San Martino in Genoa.

    Professor Odetti received his degree in medicine from the University of Genoa in 1974, specializing in endocrinology and diabetology. He continued his training and research in the Department of Pathology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

    His research focuses on non-enzymatic glycation and oxidation and lipoperoxidation in aging, diabetes, uraemia and Alzheimer’s disease; frail elderly; and pain in elderly.

    He is the author of some 200 scientific papers on glucose tolerance and insulin secretion, diabetes and its complications, pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, aging mechanisms and age-related diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease.

  • Professor of Genetics, University of Calabria, University of Pavia, Italy, and Leiden University, Netherlands; Research Associate, Stanford University Medical School, California.

    Professor Passarino works in the field of mitochondrial DNA variants and the Y-chromosome, attempting to redefine the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens. He has collaborated on major national and international projects involving aging and longevity.

    A member of the Directory Board of the Italian Genetics Association, he has co-authored about 140 publications in such journals as Nature Genetics, Science, American Journal of Human Genetics, PNAS, and Cell Metabolism.

  • Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Medical Director, Clinical Nutrition Unit, Sapienza University Hospital; Visiting Research Assistant Professor, SUNY Medical University, Syracuse, New York; Expert Reviewer, Framework Programs, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.

    Alessandro Laviano, MD, is associate professor of Internal Medicine at the Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He holds a clinical position at the Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition Unit, University Hospital “Policlinico Umberto I” of Rome. Also, Dr. Laviano holds a position of Visiting Research Professor at Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA. Dr Laviano received his MD degree at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where he also completed the residency programmes in Internal Medicine and Nephrology. In the period 1994-1995, Dr. Laviano worked as a research fellow in the Surgical Metabolism Laboratory at the Department of Surgery, SUNY Health Science Center, Syracuse, NY, USA. Dr. Laviano joined the Faculty of the Medical School at Sapienza University in 1998, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007.

    Dr. Laviano’s main research interests are: disease-associated anorexia and cachexia, and particularly cancer cachexia; nutritional modulation of anticancer treatments; hyperphagia and obesity; neural control of metabolism; hospital malnutrition.

    In the period 2010-14, Dr. Laviano has been the chairman of the Educational and Clinical Practice Committee of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN). He is currently the Director of the ESPEN LLL programme, as well as Coordinator of the Supervisory Board of the ESPEN project, nutritionDay. Dr. Laviano is currently: Editor in Chief of Nutrition; Associate Editor of Clinical Nutrition; Associate Editor of Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle. Dr. Laviano’s studies have been funded by private and public institutions. Dr. Laviano has a total of more than 220 publications in international peer reviewed journals.