Francesco Panza is a geriatrician and gerontologist and Senior Researcher at the University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy. He has over 30 years of experience in Alzheimer's disease, related dementias, mental health and geroscience research. He is an active member of the European Alzheimer’s Disease Consortium (EADC). He has over 470 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals and listed in PubMed, over two-thirds of which are as first or last author, and has an H-Index of 73. His main research interests are the role of diet and lipoprotein metabolism in cognitive decline, dementia, frailty, and cerebrovascular disease; the genetic susceptibility factors in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias; the genetics of human longevity; the epidemiology of mild cognitive impairment and related predementia syndromes; the relationships between dementia and predementia syndromes and late-life depression and mechanisms underlying; the beta-amyloid and tau protein targeting drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease; putative drugs for frontotemporal dementia; cognitive frailty and the impact of different frailty phenotypes in late-life cognitive decline and dementia; sarcopenia and related entities; and sensorial impairments in older age.