George M. Martin Receives Prestigious Fondation IPSEN Award & is Elected President of GSA

George M. Martin, Ellison Medical Foundation Scientific Advisory Board member, has recently received two outstanding honors. He has been chosen to receive the Fondation IPSEN’s 2001 Longevity Prize of 100,000 FF for his outstanding contributions to the field of longevity. The Fondation IPSEN was established in France in 1983 under the patronage of the Fondation de France to facilitate and encourage scientific knowledge exchange between research scientists and clinicians. Dr. Martin has also been elected President of the Gerontological Society of America and will assume office in November 2002 at the conclusion of the GSA’s 55th Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston, MA.