Gut Microbiota in Aging and Chronic Diseases

Prof. Francesco Marotta, MD and Specialized in Gastroenterology. Fellow in gastroenterology at Chicago University and then at the University of Cape-Town, S. Africa. Holds the only European Japanese-spoken PhD (granted by Hirosaki University, Japan 1990). Fellow of Japanese Ministry of Science at National Cancer Center, Tokyo. Member of the Chinese Society of pancreatology, Molecular biology stage in UK and Korea. Hon. Research Professor at Dept of Nutrition, Texas W University, USA and Visiting prof. at Nutrition dept, Sichuan University, China and at major institutes in Asia, USA, Japan, China/South-East Asia,Europe and Middle-East. Has directed a research center in Japan and cooperated with (Nobel) Prof. Montagnier.  Advisory member of Nazarbayev University and for the Ministry of Science of Kazakhstan.  Editor-board member of over 30 medical journals. Has received  17 international awards.  Has co-edited 2 successful books on aging-intervention and over 15 book chapters on probiotics, functional foods, peptides and approaches for longevity promotion. Founder of ReGenera R&D International for Aging Intervention working on models of preventive/regenerative medicine cooperated as chairman with VCC Medical Preventive Medicine Promotion, Beijing, China and chairs the Vitality & Longevity Medical Science Commission for WHO-affiliared FEMTEC World Federation. He has published over 220 papers and presented over 450 communications.