Bruno VELLAS

Bruno Vellas is founder of the IHU HealthAge on healthy longevity, prevention and Geroscience, of the Gérontopôle of Toulouse and Head of the Internal Medicine and Geriatrics Department at Toulouse University Hospital Centre. He is a member of UMR 1295 Aging unit at INSERM. His main research interests are clinical trials in Alzheimer's disease, frailty and geroscience, which have received national, European and international grants. He founded the Gérontopôleof Toulouse to foster innovation and research on the elderly. Since 1987, he has authored or co-authored over 500 publications in scientific journals with an h-index of 140. He is a member of the Editorial Board and a reviewer for several major journals. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA, and is a member of the Scientific Committee of numerous scientific institutions in France, Europe, Japan and the USA. Since 2016, he has been a full member of the French National Academy of Medicine, an Officer in the Order of the Legion of Honor and an Officer in the Order of Academic Palms. Between 2009 and 2013, he was President of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG), an NGO with consultative status at the UN. Since September 2017, he has been Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Frailty, Clinical Research and Geriatric Training. Finally, Bruno Vellas is behind the INSPIRE program in the field of Geroscience.