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AFAR Awards Dinner Celebrates Founder & Today’s Leaders

On April 15, 2013, AFAR celebrated its 2012 Annual Awards Dinner, rescheduled from October due to Hurricane Sandy.

At the Lotus Club in New York City, supporters, grantees, board members, and guests gathered as AFAR presented a range of Awards of Distinction, including:

FRED D. THOMPSON AWARD

Michael Hodin, PhD | Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Executive Director of the Global Coalition on Aging

AFAR AWARD

Brian Daniels, MD | Senior Vice President of Global Development and Medical Affairs at Bristol-Myers Squibb

POSTHUMOUS TRIBUTE TO GEORGE E. AND MARY J. DOTY

Received by William Doty on behalf of his parents, who were instrumental in the growth of AFAR as an organization.

AFAR also recognized Jan Vijg, PhD, Professor and Chair of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine with the Irving S. Wright Award; and Anne Brunett, PhD, Associate Professor of Genetics, Stanford University, with the Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star in Aging Research Award.

Learn more about our upcoming AFAR Awards this fall here.

Photos: Junenoire Mitchell

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