Walter Pierpaoli, M.D., Ph.D. is an internationally renowned researcher developing his own ideas in apparently disparate medical disciplines such as the neuroendocrinology of aging and transplantation immunology. He is Head of Laboratory Research at the Biancalana-Masera Foundation for the Aged in Ancona, Italy, and is the organizer of the Stromboli Conferences on Aging and Cancer (1987, 1990, and 1993). Formal reports of his work on melatonin have been published in such leading scientific journals as the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Science" and "The Annals of th...