Robert R. Wolfe

Robert R Wolfe, PhD, is the Jane and Edward Chair in Nutritional Longevity, Director, Center for Translational Research in Aging and Longevity, and Professor of Geriatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Little Rock, Arkansas. Dr. Wolfe has published 579 peer-reviewed original research articles, scientific reviews, and book chapters. These publications have been cited 54,388 times in other scientific papers according to Google Scholar (February, 2017). These studies have been conducted with support from competitive research grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Space Biomedical Institute, U S Department of Defense, The US Department of Agriculture, as well as the US Olympic committee and the International Olympic Committee. Dr. Wolfe couples scientific expertise with broad experience as a competitive athlete, having been both a professional basketball player and competitive marathon runner who has set national age-group records.