HOW BIOLOGICALLY OLD ARE YOU?

MIR-AGE

MIR-AGE - Multidisciplinary Innovative Research Actions on AGE (UnivPM-BA Index)

PROJECT SUMMARY

How biologically old are you? The project aims to provide an accurate answer to this ambitious and challenging question.

The human body has two different ages: a Chronological Age (CA) and a Biological Age (BA). Chronological Age refers to the actual time a human has been alive, while Biological Age refers to how old that human seems. The real BA is different to the CA because it includes the speed at which each person is aging and, for this reason, it is dramatically difficult to estimate. At the same time, the knowledge of an accurate BA index for each individual is of vital importance because it can be used to identify causes of aging and evaluate rejuvenation therapies and, thus, it impacts on different spheres of the society, including, among others, health, economics, political and welfare strategies and decisions.

The MIR-AGE project has the ambitious and challenging goal to propose, and experimentally validate, an innovative tool for accurately estimating and predicting the BA of each individual. This research study is of primary interest and directly impacts one of the societal challenges and priorities of the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, H2020, namely the “Health, demographic change and wellbeing”. In addition, different public and private organizations have expressed their interest on the MIR-AGE project activities, such as AitAAL (Italian Association for AAL), INNOVAAL, FIMMG (Federazione Italiana Medici di Medicina Generale Regione Marche), DAN (Divers Alert Network Europe), UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU (Complex & Intelligent Systems), INRCA ((Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico – IRCCS) and ASUR (Azienda Sanitaria Unica Regionale).

WP1

Project management

WP2

Identification of biological and lifestyle factors and selection of a healthy reference population

WP3

Development and simulation of the algorithmic tool to estimate the BA of each individual (UnivPM-BA Index)

WP4

Study and development of the ICT infrastructure for the lifestyle monitoring

WP5

Validation of UnivPM biological age index

WP6

Project Impact, Dissemination and Exploitation

MIR-AGE Gantt

ABOUT US

Multidisciplinary Expert Team
Skilled and comple- mentary knowledges

The ambitious goal of the project will be reached adopting a multidisciplinary approach, involving several expertise of different research fields. The involved partners are expert group from the Economics, Medicine and Engineering Faculty who have long research experiences on methodologies and technologies for active aging, proven by several international publications, and their enrollment in international and international projects, such as the Smart Living Technologies’ Cluster (SHELL Project), Smart Cities and Communities and Social Innovation (Health@Home Project), and others.

  • ECONOMICS

    3 staff members

  • ENGINEERING

    6 staff members

  • MEDICINE

    3 staff members

PROJECT TEAM

Multidisciplinary Working Team
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Andrea Monteriù

Project Coordinator – Engineering
ING-INF/04- Automatica
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione
Via Brecce Bianche snc
Telefono: +39 071 2204314
E-mail: a.monteriu@univpm.it Web-page: Web-page@UnivPM
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Francesco Maria Chelli

Full Professor – Economics
SECS-S/03 – Statistica economica
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali
Piazzale Martelli 8
Telefono: +39 071 2207054
E-mail: f.chelli@univpm.it Web-page: Web-page@UnivPM
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Emanuele Frontoni

Researcher – Engineering
ING-INF/05 – Sistemi di elaborazione delle informazioni
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione
Via Brecce Bianche snc
Telefono: +39 071 2204458
E-mail: e.frontoni@univpm.it Web-page: Web-page@UnivPM
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Ennio Gambi

Associate Professor – Engineering
ING-INF/03 – Telecomunicazioni
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione
Via Brecce Bianche snc
Telefono: +39 071 2204845
E-mail: e.gambi@univpm.it Web-page: Web-page@UnivPM
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Fabiola Olivieri

Researcher – Medicine
MED/46 – Scienze tecniche di medicina e di laboratorio
Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche e Molecolari – Sezione di Patologia Sperimentale
Telefono: +39 071 2206242
E-mail: f.olivieri@univpm.it Web-page: Web-page@UnivPM
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Paola Pierleoni

Researcher – Engineering
ING-INF/03 – Telecomunicazioni
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione
Via Brecce Bianche snc
Telefono: +39 071 2204847
E-mail: p.pierleoni@univpm.it Web-page: Web-page@UnivPM
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Antonio Domenico Procopio

Full Professor – Medicine
MED/04 – Patologia generale
Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche e Molecolari – Sezione di Patologia Sperimentale
Via Tronto 10
Telefono: +39 071 2206241
E-mail: a.d.procopio@univpm.it Web-page: Web-page@UnivPM
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Gian Marco Revel

Associate Professor – Engineering
IING-IND/12 – Misure meccaniche e termiche
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e Scienze Matematiche
Via Brecce Bianche snc
Telefono: +39 071 2204518
E-mail: gm.revel@univpm.it Web-page: Web-page@UnivPM
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Maria Rita Rippo

Researcher – Medicine
MED/04 – Patologia generale
Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche e Molecolari – Sezione di Patologia Sperimentale
Via Tronto 10
Telefono: +39 071 2206242
E-mail: m.r.rippo@univpm.it Web-page: Web-page@UnivPM
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Stefano Squartini

Associate Professor – Engineering
ING-IND/31 – Elettrotecnica
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione
Via Brecce Bianche snc
Telefono: +39 071 2204381
E-mail: s.squartini@univpm.it Web-page: Web-page@UnivPM
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Valerio Temperini

Researcher – Economics
SECS -P/08- Economia e gestione delle imprese
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali
Piazzale Martelli 8
Telefono: +39 071 2207247
E-mail: v.temperini@univpm.it Web-page: Web-page@UnivPM
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Maria Giovanna Vicarelli

Full Professor – Economics
SPS/09 – Sociologia dei processi economici e del lavoro
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali
Piazzale Martelli 8
Telefono: +39 071 2207155
E-mail: m.g.vicarelli@univpm.it Web-page: Web-page@UnivPM

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