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Clinical Interventions in Aging

ISSN: 1178-1998


Prof. Dr. Nandu Goswami

Prof. Dr. Goswami

Head of Research Group: Gravitational Physiology, Aging and Medicine, Institute of Physiology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Assoc. Prof Priv Doz. Nandu Goswami, PhD, is a cardiovascular physiologist with special interests in cardiovascular regulation, cerebral blood flow, orthostatic intolerance and effects of bedrest induced deconditioning. He is the Acting Chair of Physiology Division and is the Head of Research group "Gravitational Physiology, Aging and Medicine" at the Medical University of Graz, Austria. He is also actively involved in teaching and carrying out research in aging care, especially in social gerontology, as a visiting faculty member of the Alma Mater Europaea Maribor, Slovenia. He is also the President of Austrian Physiological Society and a member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA).

Dr. Goswami has been been with Clinical Interventions in Aging right from its humble beginnings. He, therefore, looks forward to bringing the journal further in its international standing in aging care. He specifically aims to push for this journal to become very popular with the leading geriatricians and gerontologists in Europe, Asia and North America. Dr. Goswami is an active member/ one of the coordinators of the European Innovative Partnerships Active and Healthy aging (EIP-AHA) and is the national contact point of the European Geriatrics Medical Society (EUGMS) falls prevention network in Austria. He is also the co-president of the Active Aging Network, which organizes the Annual Aging Conference, and is collaborative network / platform for active and healthy aging research, in the Alpine Adria region in the EU. In 2020, the theme was "COVID-19, Aging and Agingcare".

Dr. Goswami has published over 115 papers in the field of cardiovascular system, vascular function assessments in health and diseases, including several reviews related to aging, spaceflight and how life in space can lead to benefits on Earth ("Geriatrics meets spaceflight"). He has been involved in showcasing how spaceflight research can have benefits for understanding the mechanisms associated with aging associated functional and cognitive (FCD) decline. For instance, he is currently a member of the UN office of Outer Space's "Space & Global Health Working Group" as well as member of the European Space Agency (ESA) expert group on SciSpace Road map committee (moderator of the "cardio-pulmonary and renal group") as well as an active member of the "ESA bedrest expert group". As bedrest confinement is used as a model for understanding spaceflight induced deconditioning, and old persons spend a lot of time confined in bed (up to even 80% during hospitalization), the bedrest model is extensively studied by Dr. Goswami. The knowledge gained from bedrest confinement is not only used for understanding the mechanisms by which physiological deconditioning occurs during bedrest but also for designing appropriate countermeasures to overcome the FCD effects of bedrest confinement.

Dr. Goswami has over 10-years experience as either academic editor, editor-in-chief, associate editor and editorial board member in several journals. These include: Journal of Clinical Medicine, Healthcare, Physiological Research, REACH, npj Microgravity, Frontiers in Physiology, Scientific Reports, Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, Medicine, Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) and Plos One. His expertise and experience in these journals will be used to promote the hosting of special topics related to gerontology and geriatrics in Clinical Interventions in Aging. He will also encourage publications of e-books based on these special topics.


Dr Maddalena Illario

Dr Illario

Department of Public Health, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Dr. Maddalena Illario MD, PhD, endocrinologist, Associate Professor at Federico II Department of Public Health, and Coordinator of the R&D Unit of Federico II Hospital. She is currently co-chair of the European Reference Site Collaborative Network. From December 2016 to July 2020 coordinator of Campania Region Division for Health Innovation.

She has been involved in more than ten projects focusing on the digital transformation of health and care, including mHealth Hub, Vigour and HS-Monitor. She is currently national referent for the Cost Action CA19136 - International Interdisciplinary Network on Smart Healthy Age-friendly Environments.

Since May 2015 Dr. Illario has been co-coordinator of A3 of the Action Group on Prevention of Frailty and Functional Decline of the European Partnership on Active and Healthy Aging. Since 2013 she has been coordinating Campania Reference Site of the European Partnership on Active and Healthy Aging.


Dr Zhi-Ying Wu

Dr Wu

Department of Neurology and Department of Medical Genetics, Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

Zhi-Ying Wu is a Qiushi distinguished professor of Zhejiang University, a chief physician of Department of Neurology and Department of Medical Genetics at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine. She is a winner of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, and a leader of the innovation team in key areas of the Ministry of Science and Technology Innovative Talent Promotion Program.

As the corresponding author, Dr. Wu has published more than 150 SCI papers in international journals such as Nature Genetics, Brain, Neurology, Movement Disorders, and others. She serves as vice president of Chinese Society of Neuroscience, and head of Neurogenetics Group of Neurology branch of Chinese Medical Association.


Editorial Board

David Bogataj, Professor, Alma Mater Europea Maribor, University of Padova, Slovenia.

Jean Bousquet, Professor, University of Montpellier, France.

Zhiyou Cai, Professor, Department of Neurology, Chongqing General Hospital, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing, People's Republic of China

Daniel Cardinali, Professor, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University, Argentina. 

Germaine Cornellisen, Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of Minnesota, USA

Kishore Kumar Deepak, Professor, Department of Physiology, All India Institute of medical sciences, New Delhi, India. 

IInes Drenjancevic, MD, PhD, Professor, Institute and Department of Physiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine Osijek, Director of the National Centre of Scientific Excellence for Personalized Health Care, University of Osijek, Croatia.

Dechao Feng, M.D., Ph.D, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Senior Scientific Consultant of Basebio and the Department of Rehabilitation, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, China.

Per Morten Fredriksen, Professor, Ph.D. Physical Sciences, Kristiania University College, Oslo, Norway.

Gloria Gutman, Professor Emerita, Simon Fraser University; Vice-President International Longevity Centre Canada.

Ahmet Turan Isik, M.D., Chair, Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Unit for Brain Aging and Dementia, Department of Geriatric Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey

Voyko Kavcic, Associate Research Professor, Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Naim-Akhtar Khan, Professor, Director of the Nutritional Physiology & Toxicology Division, INSERM UMR 1231, University of Bourgogne, Dijon, France. 

Mashahiro Kohzuki, Chairman and President, Yamagata Prefectural University of Health Sciences, and Professor Emeritus of Tohoku University , Japan.

Hsien-Yuan Lane: China Medical University Hospital, Taiwan.

Doris Y.P. Leung, Associate Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

Dengxiong Li, Ph.D. Department of Urology, Institute of Urology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, China.

Andrea Maier, Professor, Oon Chiew Seng Professor in Medicine, Healthy Ageing and Dementia Research, Co-Director of the Centre for Healthy Longevity, @AgeSingapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Honorary Professor of General Medicine and Aged Care, @AgeMelbourne, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Australia. Professor of Gerontology, @AgeAmsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.


Francesco Marotta, Professor, ReGenera R&D International for Aging Intervention and Longevity & Vitality Med. Science Commission, Femtec Federation, Milano, Italy.

Francesco Mattace-Raso (1967) is Professor of Geriatrics at the Erasmus MC University Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands where he chairs the division of Geriatric Medicine and has been the Head Postgraduate School of Geriatrics (2010-2021). Main research interest is to investigate the causes and consequences of age- related cardiometabolic changes: a model of aging which allows to investigate the complex biological process of senescence and the possible consequences on individual vitality.

Graciela Muniz-Terrera, Professor, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Benedicta Nkeh-Chungag, Professor of Physiology and Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, South Africa.

Regina Roller-Wirnsberger, Professor of Geriatrics and Competency Based Curriculum Development, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz and Research Unit of Aging and Old Age Medicine, Austria.

Olga Safonicheva, Professor at the Department of Sports Medicine and Medical Rehabilitation of Institute of Clinical Institute and at the Department of Integrative Medicine, Institute of Post-graduate Education for Doctors in First Moscow State Medical University (I.M. Sechenov University of Life Sciences), Russia. 

Walter Schippinger, Professor, Medical director of the Albert Schweitzer Clinic, Head of the Department of Internal Medicine, Graz Geriatrics Center, Austria.

Suzana Shahar, Professor, Head, Research Centre on Community Rehabilitation and Aging, Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia

Jarmila Siegelova, Professor, DrSc, Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, and Department of Sports medicine and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Anna Teaching Hospital, Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

Fatih Tufan, Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Istanbul Aydin University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Perla Werner, Professor in Gerontology, Department of Community Mental Health, University of Haifa, Israel

Yuzhen Xu, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University, Taian, People's Republic of China.