PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 20th annual Longevity Prize of the Fondation IPSEN has been awarded to Steven N. Austad (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA), in recognition of his outstanding leadership in the domain of the comparative biology of aging (especially the study of species resisting to aging), by an international jury led by Thomas Kirkwood (Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK). He received the €20,000 prize on November 21st, 2015 at the Gerontology Society of America (GSA) in Orlando, USA where he presented an outstanding lecture.
