Biography & Research:
Virginia Boccardi graduated as MD in 2007, completed her residency in Geriatrics in 2012 and her PhD in Metabolism and Aging in 2015, at the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy. She is a past Assistant Professor at the Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics of the University of Perugia and medical director at Section of Geriatric (Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital since 2018). During her career, she has spent almost 2 years as a research fellow at The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (USA) focusing her research on cellular senescence and telomere biology. She is working in different projects on molecular and metabolic aspects of aging, with particular interest in cognitive impairment as well as the development of intervention strategies. She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in reputed journals and contributed many books/chapters (actual H-index: 18). She has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.