Prof. Virginia  Boccardi is a Professor and Senior researcher at the Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia. She received her PhD degree in medicine from Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” and was a Postdoctoral fellow at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. She performs research in Geriatrics and Gerontology, and her research is mainly focused on senescence, telomere biology, aging, and nutrition, with a particular interest in cognitive and metabolic disorders.