Professor Kiyoka Kinugawa, MD, PhD, is a neuro-geriatrician at Sorbonne University. She heads the Functional Investigation Unit of the Older Person at Charles Foix Hospital/AP-HP, a geriatric university hospital. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Alliance Sorbonne University Global Health Institute, leading the Aging-Vulnerability-Autonomy axis. She is also a member of the scientific committee of the French Geriatrics & Gerontology Society and French national teaching committees for Geriatrics and Sleep Medicine.

Her research focuses on:

• Clinical research: Neurodegenerative and sleep disorders in older adults; developing diagnosis/monitoring tools for sarcopenia and muscle aging ; developping metric for healthy aging.
• Basic research (INSERM/Sorbonne, UMRS1158): Impact of sleep intermittent hypoxia on neurodegenerative pathology and cellular senescence (molecular to neurobehavioral levels).