Giuseppina Candore is an Full Professor of General Pathology in the Laboratory of Immunopathology and Immunosenescence in the Department of Biomedicine, Neurosciences, and Advanced Diagnostics at the University of Palermo. In the last five years, she has been coauthor of more than 40 publications indexed on Pubmed and ISI (290 in total), regarding immunosenescence, immunogenetics of longevity, and immunopathology. As documented in Scopus, her H index is 59, with 11,146 citations. She was the Co-coordinator of the Italian Ministerial Project on Centenarians and Longevity. Currently, she is responsible for the local unit of the project “Improved Vaccination Strategies for Older Adults (ISOLDA)” just funded by the European Commission (HORIZON 2020) and Local Coordinator of the project "Unveiling pathways to modulate molecular clock to extend youth: analysis of extreme longevity and specific dietetic interventions", funded by MUR (PRIN 2022). She was Director of the postgraduate School in Clinical Pathology and Clinical Biochemestry, University of Palermo.  The national and international recognition of her scientific achievements in the field of Biogerontology is documented by the number of citations of her papers and by the organization of national and international conferences.