Professor of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, and Chairman of Geriatrics, University of Nancy,France.

Athanase Benetos is Professor of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, and Chairman of Geriatrics, at the University of Nancy, France. He is also a Senior Researcher at INSERM (National Institute of Biomedical Research) Unit 684, as well as Chief of the University Centre for Research and Education on Ageing (Centre EFORVIE, University of Nancy).

Prof. Benetos received his PhD from the University of Paris VI and was Senior Consultant in Hypertension at the Broussais Hospital, Paris, from 1988 to 2002. He was also Chief of the Epidemiology Department of the Medical Center d'Investigations Préventives et Cliniques, Paris, from 1995 to 2002. His research interests include biomarkers of ageing, telomere dynamics, epidemiology, genetics and treatment of the age-related changes in large arteries, as well as the role of hypertension and other risk factors on cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.

Prof. Benetos has authored more than 170 papers published in peer-reviewed international scientific journals.