Francesco Marotta, MD, MS & PhD (Japan), MACG (USA).  Fellow in gastroenterology at Chicago Univ., Univ. of Cape-Town. Fellow of Japanese Min. of Science at Natl. Cancer Center, Tokyo. Member of the Chinese Society of pancreatology, Molecular biology stage in UK and Korea. Hon. Research Professor Texas W University, USA and Visiting prof. Sichuan University, China and at major institutes worldwide. Has directed a research center in Japan and cooperated with (Nobel) Prof. Montagnier  for 10 years. Has received  17 international awards, co-edited 2 successful books on aging-intervention and 15 book chapters on probiotics, functional foods, peptides and approaches for longevity promotion.