Policlinica de Geriatrie Si Gerontologie Ana Aslan, Bucureşti

The Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics was founded in 1952 as the first institution of this kind by Decision of the Ministerial Cabinet. In 1974 it became a National Institute and in 1974 it took the name of "Ana Aslan". From its beginnings the Institute was led by Prof. Acad. Ana Aslan M.D. until 1988. It has had medical geriatric assistance and social gerontology research as main activities. The Institute was commended in 1964 as a model of geriatric institution by WHO. The Institute was extended in 1974 by a new clinic of outstanding interior and large spaces, located in Otopeni town on an area of 32 ha. The Institute Headquarter building located on Caldarusani Street Nr.9, Bucharest, is a national architectural patrimony building. It was designed by architect Ion Mincu and it has ceramic decorations in Romanian style. The first medicine designed to delay human aging was developed between 1946 and 1956 as the result of various clinical and experimental researches by Prof. Ana Aslan and her followers. These results were presented within a work called "Novocain- eutrophic and antiaging factor", published in 1955 together with Prof. C. I. Parhon. One year later, in 1956, "Gerovital" is introduced to international medicine world at the Congress Therapiewoche in Karlsruhe, and then at the Congress on Gerontology in Basel.