Ilaria BellantuonoProfessor Ilaria Bellantuono, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

The focus of Professor Bellantuono's research is on ways to reduce the onset of multiple age-related disease and frailty by preventing or reversing the ageing using medicinal dugs (geroprotectors). His primary interest is in the diseases of the musculoskeletal system such as osteoporosis and osteoarthritis. He works closely with many colleagues and experts in different age-related diseases to identify common mechanisms (DNA repair and senescence) involved in driving ageing and compounds which targets those mechanisms and able to benefit more than one disease at the same time. He is very much interested in how we can design clinical trials to test geroprotectors to prevent multimorbidity and frailty. For this he has worked with Industrial partners and expert in regulatory affairs to reach consensus at the European level and our roadmap is here Read More Read Less