MADRID 2019 The Future of AGEING

Professor José Viña is Full Professor and Chairman of Physiology (Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Valencia, Spain) and has been working in ageing for over thirty years. He has been leading a successful research group dealing with nutritional aspects, in the first instance, with longevity and, more recently, with frailty. His major contributions have been: i) Experimental determination that mitochondria are key targets for ageing; ii) Identification of molecular mechanisms to explain why females live longer than males; iii) Identification of new longevity-associated genes, particularly those involved in p53 pathways, telomerase, RAS/GRF1, and antioxidants (G6PD); iv) Generation of a new experimental model for frailty in animals, and; v) Determination of a clinical intervention to effectively delay frailty in humans.

Recipient of the Universidad de Valencia Prize for Best Research Translatable to Society (2019), the Albert Struyvenberg Medal from the European Society for Clinical Investigation (ESCI) 2017; Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Rennes 2, France, 2012; Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2008; Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Medicine of Torino, Italy, December 2007; 8th Edition of the award presented by 3M Foundation for Innovation (Research in Alzheimer’s disease), July 2006; Alberto Sols prize for best research career in the Valencian Community with special mention of the establishment of a research group working on the role of free radicals in pathophysiology, 2005; Spanish Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology Prize for research in Gerontology in June 2004; National Prize for research in child nutrition, awarded by the Spanish Paediatric Association, May 2004; Prize for the best research development in Nutrition awarded by the Spanish Society for Basic and Applied Nutrition (Granted by the Institute Danone), December, 1998.