The Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction is named in honor of the founder of the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) and is intended to honor exceptional contributions to basic or clinical research in the field of aging by members of the scientific community. This award is given by AFAR, however, the recipient of this award gives a lecture at GSA's Annual Meeting.

2012 Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction Lecture:  Science, aging and the genome

By Jan Vijg, PhD

2011 Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction Lecture: From Mice to Methuselah: What We Can Learn from the Comparative Biology of Aging
By Steven N. Austad, PhD

For more information please visit the AFAR website:
http://www.afar.org