European Chair (President) of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (2011-2015), Director of the Saint-Petersburg Institute of Bioregulation and Gerontology, Vice–President of the Gerontological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Chair of Gerontology and Geriatrics at the I.I. Mechnikov North -Western State Medical University, Chief of the Department of the I.P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of the Ukrainian National Academy of Medical Sciences, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Honored Inventor of the Russian Federation, Winner of Prizes of the USSR Council of Ministers and Academy of Sciences, Main specialist in gerontology and geriatrics of the Governments of Saint Petersburg and Leningrad region, Professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences.