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             ANA ASLAN 

was a famous Romanian scientist, who has founded the world's first Institute of Geriatrics. She discovered the first anti-aging remedy, called Gerovital, that has been used in more than 70 countries around the world. 

       Ana Aslan was born in 1897, in Braila, Romania. Between 1915 and 1922, she studied medicine at the University of Bucharest and she  specialized in cardiology, gerontology and geriatrics.

           In 1952, she developed the H3 vitamin, also known as Gerovital, a pharmaceutical product for the treatment of the aging process and some of diseases affecting elders. The same year she founded the world’s first Institute of Geriatrics, which later became the National Geriatrics and Gerontology Institute.

      In 1956, she presented her invention at the European Gerontology Congress at Karlsruhe and at the European Gerontology Congress at Basel, but it was received with skepticism. During the following years, thousands of people tested the product and the results were positive, indicating that the aging process had been slowed down by 40%.