Research Perspective|Volume 10, Issue 5|pp 863—867

It is necessary to establish an International Agency for Research on Aging

Vladimir N. Anisimov¹, Alexandre V. Sidorenko²

¹Department of Carcinogenesis and Oncogerontology, , N.N. Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology, St. Petersburg 197758, Russia
²European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna A-1230, Austria

Received: January 15, 2018Accepted: May 8, 2018Published: May 12, 2018

Copyright: © 2018 Anisimov et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

The global aging of human population is one of the main challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. Establishing an International Agency for Research on Aging as an entity affiliated to one of the intergovernmental institutions, such as the World Health Organization, can be crucial for promoting international collaboration in gerontology, in particular in a search of effective and safe geroprotectors for humans.