Prof. David Melzer University of Exeter Medical School, UK

David Melzer is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Exeter Medical School. He is also Professor at the University of Connecticut Center on Aging. His work focusses of genetic and conventional factors in human aging. He is currently leading analyses on aging phenotypes in the UK... read moreBiobank, which has a sample of 217,000 people aged 60 to 69. He is also using every large medical records databases (over 2 million patients) to study clinical measures, including obesity in aging. He is a member of the executive of the National School for Public Health Research in England. His is also currently an associate editor of the Journals of Gerontology, Medical Sciences.