| Shock Lecture Award winners: |
| 1990 -
Philip W. Landfield, Ph.D.,
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Lecture: "The Glucocorticoid Hypothesis of Brain Aging: New Evidence on Possible Mechanisms" |
| 1991 -
Phyllis Wise, Ph.D.,
Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Lecture: "Changing Neurotransmitter Rhythms: Insights into the Aging Brain" |
| 1992 -
Richard A. Miller, M.D., Ph.D.,
University of Michigan, Institute of Gerontology, Lecture: "Defects in Calcium Signals and Protein Kinase Pathways in T-Lymphocytes from Old Mice" |
| 1993 -
Arlan Richardson, Ph.D.,
University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio, Lecture: "Gene Expression Changes Key to Dietary Restrictions Benefits?" |
| 1994 -
Steven N. Austad, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of Zoology, Department of Biological Science, University of Idaho, Lecture: "Size and Aging: The Biomedical Implications" |
| 1995 -
Thomas E. Johnson, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor Psychology and Fellow of the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Lecture: "Identification and Function of Gerontogenes in C. elegans" |
| 1996 -
Vincent M. Monnier, M.D.,
Professor of Pathology,
Institute of Pathology,
Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, Ohio, Lecture: "From Bjorksten to Kohn: The Collagen Theory of Aging in Light of the Maillard Reaction" |
| 1997 -
S. Michal Jazwinski, Ph.D.,
Professor, Department of Biochemistry,
Louisiana State University Medical Center,
New Orleans, Louisiana, Lecture: "Longevity, Genes, and Aging: The View Provided by a Genetic Model System" |
| 1998 -
Calvin Harley, Ph.D.,
Geron Corporation,
Menlo Park, California, Lecture: "What Can Immortality (of the cell) Teach You?" |
| 1999 -
Olivia M. Pereira-Smith, Ph.D.,
Huffington Center on Aging,
Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, Texas, Lecture: "Identification of a Novel Gene Family of Transcription-like Factors: A Role for Cell Aging" |
| 2000 -
Richard Weindruch, Ph.D.,
Department of Medicine,
University of Wisconsin,
Madison, Wisconsin, Lecture: "Caloric Intake, Oxidative Stress, and Aging" |
| 2001 -
Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D.,
Department of Neurology (Neuroscience), Director, Genetics and Aging Research Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Lecture: "Alzheimer's Disease: From Genes to Drugs in the 21st Century" |
| 2002 -
Gordon J. Lithgow, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor, The Buck Institute for Age Research, Novato, California, Lecture: "The New Biology of Aging - Worms, Flies and Age Related Disease" |
| 2003 -
Nir Barzilai, M.D.,
Associate Professor of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, Lecture: "New Insights Into the Biology of Longevity" |
| 2004 -
Christiaan Leeuwenburgh, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor, University of Florida and Director, Biochemistry of Aging Laboratory, Lecture: "Oxidative Stress, Cell Death and Aging: Role of Exercise and Calorie Restriction" |
| 2005 -
Gerd Kemperman, M.D.,
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany, Lecture: "New Neurons for Old Brains: Lifelong Neuronal Development in the Adult Hippocampus" |
| 2006 -
Ana Maria Cuervo, M.D., Ph.D.,
Associate Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Lecture: "Autophagy and Aging: When the Cleaning Crew Goes on Strike" |
| 2007 -
Anna Csiszar, M.D., Ph.D.,
New York Medical College, Lecture: "Vascular Inflammation in Aging" |
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