Blanka Rogina, Ph.D., M.S., FGSA, is the Professor of Genetics and Genome Sciences, UConn School of Medicine, and an affiliated investigator of the UConn Center on Aging. The goal of her research is to identify and characterize molecular mechanisms of aging. She received awards from the NIA, AFAR, and the Glenn Foundation. She is elected Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) (2019). She has been serving in the GSA as: member of the Award Committee (2018, 2019), Program Committee (2019), Lead, the BioSci Program workgroup (2020), Member GSA Program, Publications, and Products Committee (2022, 2023), Lead, The Journals of Gerontology Series A, BioSci Editor-in-Chief Search (2022), Vice-Chair Elect of the BioSci of GSA (2022), Vice Chair, BioSci (2023), Chair of BioSci Meeting Program working group (2023), Member of the Membership Committee (2024), Member of the GSA Strategic Plan Committee (2024), Chair of the BioSci Section of the GSA (2024).

Dr. Gustavo Duque received his MD degree from Columbia and PhD degree from McGill University. Dr. Duque was faculty in McGill University Medical School until 2007, when he moved to Sydney, Australia and served as Head of the Division of Geriatric Medicine, Sydney, Medical School Nepean–University of Sydney. Dr. Duque has extensive editorial experience and has served as Associate Editor of several top journals in the musculoskeletal and aging fields and on the Editorial boards of a number of journals. He became the Editor-in-Chief of GSA’s The Biological Sciences Section of The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences in January of 2023.