**About the Editors**

**Annibale Puca** is an M.D. and board-certified in neurology. He started as a postdoc at TIGEM (Naples) in 1995 with Prof. Brunella Franco. In 1998, he was a postdoc at Harvard Medical School in Prof. Luo Kunkel's lab working on the genetics of exceptional longevity. In Cambridge, USA, he scientifically directed and co-founded Centagenetix Inc. in 2001. In 2006, he started a group at Multimedica (Milan) where he focused its efforts on the discovery of genetic risk factors for exceptional longevity. At the academic level, he became Associate Professor in 2011 and Full Professor in Clinical Pathology in 2020 at the Department of Medicine of University of Salerno. He is the winner of grants as PI (Ministero della salute, Cariplo Foundation) and unit leader (Ministero della Ricerca, Ministero della Salute). He has a strong track record of publications (Scopus H index of 37 with more than 130 publications) about the therapeutic use of a longevity-associated variant (LAV) of BPIFB4 and he started a spin-off (LGV1) in 2015 around its potential therapeutic applications.

**Calogero Caruso** , MD, formerly Full Professor of General Pathology, is Professor Emeritus of the University of Palermo. In his academic career, he was Coordinator of the PhD course in Molecular Medicine and Biotechnology, Director of the Postgraduate School in Laboratory Medicine, and Dean of the Medical School Graduate Course. He directed the Immunopathology Laboratory and the Transfusion Medicine Unit of "Paolo Giaccone" University Hospital. He is the author of 382 scientific papers with a total of 13,093 citations (H-index 59), mainly on topics of immunogenetics (in 1981 he was a fellow at the Department of Immunohematology of Leiden University) and immunopathology, immunosenescence, aging and longevity. Founder and Editor of Immunity & Aging from 2004 to 2018, he is currently Academic Editor of PlosOne, Mediators of Inflammation, and the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. He recently edited the book "Centenarians. An example of Positive Biology" for Springer Nature, and with Prof. Giuseppina Candore, he edited for Elsevier the book "Human Aging: From Cellular Mechanisms to Therapeutic Strategies" to be published in May. Coordinator of an Italian national project on centenaries and longevity (2017–2020), with Prof. Giuseppina Candore, he is responsible for the local unit of the European project "Improved Vaccination Strategies for Older Adults".
