14th Longevity Prize of La Fondation Ipsen Doctor Jacques Vallin is Awarded for Cross-National Comparison of Longevity Through Health Transition.PARIS Paris, in Greek mythology Paris or Alexander, in Greek mythology, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Hector. Because it was prophesied that he would cause the destruction of Troy, Paris was abandoned on Mt. -- The 14th annual Longevity Prize has been awarded to Jacques Vallin (Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques, Paris) for his cross-national comparison of longevity through health transition by an international jury1 led by Professor Leonard Poon poon n. Any of several trees of the genus Calophyllum, of southern Asia, having light hard wood used for masts and spars. [Sinhalese p (University of Georgia Organization The President of the University of Georgia (as of 2007, Michael F. Adams) is the head administrator and is appointed and overseen by the Georgia Board of Regents. , Athens, USA). He received the [euro]20,000 prize on 6 July 2009 at the World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics gerontology and geriatrics Scientific and medical disciplines, respectively, concerned with all aspects of health and disease in the elderly and with the normal aging process. (Paris, France). About the winner Jacques Vallin is Emeritus Research Director at the Institut national d'etudes demographiques (INED INED Institut National d'Études Démographiques INED Independent Non-Executive Director , Paris). With a doctorate in economics, he more over gets degrees from the Institut d'etudes politiques de Paris, and from the Institut de demographie de l'Universite de Paris. INED researcher since 1965, he also was Population Council expert in Tunisia (1967-1969), then representative in Algeria (1972-1973). He is best renown for his pioneer researches on Cross-national comparison of longevity through demographic and health transition. His main fields of research are: population growth in developing countries, mortality and causes of death in developed countries, and historical demography. He taught demography at the Institut d'etudes politiques de Paris and in various universities. He is Honorary President of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP IUSSP International Union for the Scientific Study of Population ). He published about 30 books (most recently: Population et developpement en Tunisie; Tables de mortalite fran[?]aises; Mortalite et causes de deces en Ukraine; Demographie : analyse et synthese), and 200 articles (most recently: Reversal of mortality decline: the case of contemporary Russia, World Health Statistics Quarterly; Demographic trends: beyond the limits? Population; Ukrainian losses during the 30s and 40s crises, Population Studies; Improving the accuracy of life tables at the oldest ages, Population; The end of the demographic transition: relief or concern? Population and Development Review; Differential patterns of age-related mortality increase in middle ages and old age, Journal of Gerontology gerontology: see geriatrics. : Biological Sciences, 2003; Trajectories of extreme survival in heterogeneous population, Population; Convergences and divergences in mortality. A new approach to health transition, Demographic Research; Minimum mortality: a predictor of future progress? Population, 2008, The segmented trend line of highest life expectancies, Population and Development Review). About the Longevity Prize Founded in 1996, the Longevity Prize of La Fondation Ipsen has been awarded to renowned specialists: Caleb E. Finch (Los Angeles, 1996), Vaino Kannisto (Lisboa, 1997), Roy L. Walford (Los Angeles, 1998), John Morley (St Louis,1999), Paul & Margret Baltes (Berlin, 2000), Justin Congdon (Aiken, 2001), George Martin (Seattle, 2002), James Vaupel (Rostock, 2003), Linda Partridge (London, 2004), Sir Michael Marmot marmot, ground-living rodent of the genus Marmota, of the squirrel family, closely related to the ground squirrel, prairie dog, and chipmunk. Marmots are found in Eurasia and North America; the best-known North American marmot is the woodchuck, M. (London, 2005), Cynthia Kenyon (San Francisco, 2006), David Barker (Southampton, 2007) and Gerald McLearn (University Park, 2008). La Fondation Ipsen Established in 1983 under the aegis of the Fondation de France, the mission of La Fondation Ipsen is to contribute to the development and dissemination of scientific knowledge. The long-standing action of La Fondation Ipsen is aimed at furthering the interaction between researchers and clinical practitioners, which is indispensable due to the extreme specialisation of these professions. The ambition of La Fondation Ipsen is not to offer definitive knowledge, but to initiate a reflection about the major scientific issues of the forthcoming years. It has developed an important international network of scientific experts who meet regularly at meetings known as Colloques Medecine et Recherche, dedicated to six main themes: Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease (ăls`hī'mərz, ôls–), degenerative disease of nerve cells in the cerebral cortex that leads to atrophy of the brain and senile dementia. , neurosciences, longevity, endocrinology, the vascular system and cancer science. In 2007, La Fondation Ipsen started three new series of meetings. The first is in partnership with the Salk Institute and Nature and is an annual meeting which focuses on aspects of Biological Complexity; the second is the "Emergence and Convergence" series with Nature with 4 workshops a year, and the third annual meeting is with Cell and the Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital Health care The major teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School, widely regarded as one of the best health care centers in the world entitled "Exciting Biologies". Since its beginning, La Fondation Ipsen has organised more than 100 international conferences, published 69 volumes with renowned publishers and more than 205 issues of a widely distributed newsletter Alzheimer Actualites. It has also awarded more than 100 prizes and grants. 1 James Carey (University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis, commonly known as UC Davis, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, and was established as the University Farm in 1905. , USA), Eileen Crimmins (University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission , Los Angeles, USA), Caleb Finch (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA), Bernard Forette (Hypital Sainte Perine, Paris, France), Bernard Jeune (Center for Health and Social Policy, Odense, Denmark), George Martin (University of Washington, Seattle, USA), Jean-Pierre Michel (Hypital Universitaire de Geneve, Thonex, Switzerland), Jean-Marie Robine (INSERM INSERM Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (French Institute of Health and Medical Research) Equipe Demographie et Sante, Montpellier, France), Jacques Treton (Institut de Recherches des Cordeliers, Paris, France) and Bruno Vellas (Centre Hospitalier Regional Toulouse, France) |
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