Genetics Policy Institute. He also served on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2015. Relationship with Phineas Gage Fred Gage has been said to be a descendant of (or more specifically, the great-grandson of) Phineas Gage, through whose brain an iron bar 1-1/4-inches in diameter was accidentally driven in 1848, transforming him into perhaps the most famous of all brain-injury survivors. However, this proposition faces considerable difficulties, chief of which being that Phineas Gage had no known children. Awards and honors IPSEN Prize in Neuronal Plasticity, 1990 Charles A. Dana Award for Pioneering Achievements in Health and Education, 1993 Christopher Reeve Research Medal, 1997 Max Planck Research Prize, 1999 Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease, 2001 President, Society for Neuroscience, 2001 MetLife Award for Medical Research, 2002 National Academy of Sciences 2003 Keio Medical Science Prize, 2008 Member, American Philosophical Society, 2010 References https://www.salk.edu/news-release/salk-president-rusty-gage-named-to-new-five-year-term-to-lead-institute/ Salk Institute page Rett Syndrome Research Trust Gage Lab WebSite 1950 births Living people American geneticists Johns Hopkins University alumni University of Florida alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Members of the American Philosophical Society Salk Institute for Biological Studies people Members of the National Academy of Medicine