Dr. John E. Morley

Scientific Advisory Board


Dr. John E. Morley, M.B., B.CH., a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Edunn, has published more than 900 papers, of which over 450 are original research communications to peer reviewed journals. As Dammert Professor of Gerontology, he directs one of the largest medical school Gerontology divisions in the US, and is an internationally recognized expert in gerontology and Alzheimer's research. The Company's IP arises from the research of Dr. Morley, who, and his colleagues, all of whom will have continued formal associations with Edunn.

John Edward Morley completed his medical degree at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1972. After completing his internal medicine residency in South Africa he did a fellowship in endocrinology at UCLA. He was subsequently a staff endocrinologist at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center and the University of Minnesota. In January 1985, he moved to California to become Director of the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Sepulveda VA Medical Center and a Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. He is board certified in internal medicine, endocrinology, and geriatric medicine. He has edited 20 books including Medical Care in the Nursing Home, Geriatric Nutrition and Endocrinology of Aging, and Principles and Practice of Geriatric Medicine. His publications have a major research emphasis on the role of neuropeptides in the modulation of hormonal responses and behavior as well as nutrition and hormones in older persons.

For his work in appetite regulation, he received the Mead Johnson Award of the American Institution of Nutrition in 1985. He was among the 100 most-cited authors in the world from 1980 to 1988. He was the Medical Director of the Year for Life Care Centers of America in 1998. In 1999 he was awarded the IPSEN Foundation Longevity Prize which is one of the most prestigious European awards for research in gerontology. In 2001 he received the Gayle and Richard Olson Prize for Most Outstanding Behavioral Paper Published the Previous Year in the Journal Peptides as well as receiving the Circle Award from the American Dietetic Association. In 2002 he was chosen to receive the American Geriatrics Society's Nascher/Manning Award for his life-long achievements in clinical geriatrics. In 2003 he became a Fellow in the Gerontological Society of America. In November, 2004 he was awarded the Joseph T. Freeman Award by the Gerontological Society of America for his work in geriatrics both in research and practice. In June, 2005 he was honored as the recipient of the Marsha Goodwin-Beck Interdisciplinary Award for Excellence in Geriatric Leadership by the Department of Veterans Affairs National Leadership Board. He has served on the editorial boards of nine journals.

In July 1989, Dr. Morley moved to St. Louis, Missouri, to become the Dammert Professor of Gerontology and Director, Division of Geriatric Medicine at Saint Louis University Medical Center and Director of the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center at the St. Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is the medical director of six nursing and/or assisted living homes. He is the co-author of The Science of Staying Young (2007). Dr. Morley has recruited, over more than 15 years, a team of outstanding researchers who share a passion for investigation of Alzheimer's disease, and who invented Edunn's EDN-OL1 and EDN-OL202.