And to have success in understanding aging and counteracting it, scientists should combine dispersed knowledge from various fields of biomedicine.
The Institute’s honorary members included the biochemists Emil Abderhalden and Casimir Funk, the physicians Max Bürger [de] and Eugen Steinach, the philosopher Oswald Spengler, the Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Hans Spemann, the Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Theodor Svedberg, and about 80 other famous scientists of that time from all over the world, including USSR, South America and Japan.
During its first year the journal had the name Monatsberichte (monthly reports),[5] and in 1937 it was renamed to German: Altersprobleme: Zeitschrift für Internationale Altersforschung und Altersbekämpfung = English: "Problems of Aging: Journal for the International Study and Combat of Aging".
[4] According to the opinion of some experts, due to the work of Dimu Kotsovsky and the related work of the laboratories of his colleagues Gheorghe Marinescu and Grigore Benetato [ro], the then-existing Kingdom of Romania can arguably be named one of the leading countries in the field of aging research in the 1930s.
[4] In 1940, as a consequence of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Romania was forced to cede part of its territory to the Soviet Union, including Chișinău, where the Moldavian SSR was formed.
Dimu Kotsovsky pointed to various problems that civilization produces, where the evolutionary selection is no longer based on the positive characteristics of people.