Claudio Franceschi, MD, PhD

University of Bologna, Italy

Professor Emeritus, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (UNIBO) Italy; Head of Lab Systems Medicine and Healthy Aging, Lobachevsky University, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia, 2018-today; Full Professor of Immunology at the Universities of Padua (1980-86), Modena (1986-1998) and UNIBO (1998-2013); Editor-in-Chief of “Ageing Research Review” (IF 2025: 12.4) since 2018; One of the Editors of the “Handbook of Immunosenescence”, 2nd ed. 2019, XLIX, 2921 pages, 272 illus. 3 volumes, Springer Int. Publ. 2019; Authors of more than 900 papers (128606 citations, h-index: 158, Google Scholar, May 2026); Keynote lecturer at Gordon Conferences, Keystone Symposia on Molecular Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Symposia, EMBO Courses, European and World Congresses on Aging; Coordinator of European large collaborative projects: GEHA (GEnetics of Heathy Aging, 2004-2010; 7.2M€); NU-AGE (Mediterranean Diet for the elderly, 2011-2016; 9M€); PROPAG-AGEING (Aging and Parkinson disease, 2015-2019; 6M€); ADAGE (Alzheimer disease; 2016-2019; 1.3M€); Partner/WP leader of several EU projects: PROTEOMAGE; RISTOMED; MARK-AGE; MYOAGE; IDEAL; COBRA; MISSION-T2D; HUMAN; MYNEWGUT. PI of the Russian MEGAGRANT “DPM-AGEING” Digital Personalized Medicine of Healthy Ageing (2018-2022) funded by Government of Russian Federation at "Lobachevsky” State National Research University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Recipient of Laurea Honoris causa: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina), 2008; University of Bordeaux, France, 2018; Lobachevsky State University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 2021. International Awards: Annual Hayflick Lecturer 2012, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Center for Aging, March 2012; The Oxygen Club of California Award: Aging Research Award, June 2012; IAGG-ER Award of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics of the European Region, April 2015; Schober Price, Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany, September 2017; Nencki Prize, Polish Academy of Sciences, Nencki Institute, Warsaw, Poland, October 2017; 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award in Immunology and Aging Research, Montreal, Canada. Member of the Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna; 2024 Member of IVSLA (Venetian Institute of Science, Humanities and Art).