for Ageing Research (or BFAR) but which was to become the respected charity Research Into Ageing. This name change was initiated in 1988. 1980s and 1990s The BSRA obtained charitable status (1980) which it retains to this day. There was a marked upswing in the activity and membership of the society from the mid-1990s onwards as a result of importance of research into the biology of ageing given in both the Office of Science and Technology (OST) Extend Quality Life (or EQUAL) initiative (1995) which sought to use "the combined resources, expertise and capacity for innovation of the science and engineering base to extend the active period of people's lives and in the subsequent Technology Foresight review" Millennium to the present To mark the 60th annual meeting of the BSRA, the membership voted to bestow honorary life membership on all Cohen Medallists then still living. This award took place as a special round table at the 61st annual meeting. Prominent members Unless noted otherwise members are listed by the date at which they were elected to the executive committee of the Society or awarded the Lord Cohen Medal. Prominent member entries are sourced from personal data returned by the members to the society, Wikipedia entries, The Royal College of Physicians Lives of the fellows (http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/) or Achenbaum and Albert (1995) Profiles in gerontology: A biographical dictionary. Published Greenwood Formation–1960 Dr Alex Comfort (1920–?) Professor James Danielli FRS (1911–1984) Professor Sir Charles Dodds 1st Baronet, MD, DSc FRCP FRS (1899–1973) Professor Sir Frances Richard Frazer (1885–1964), Professor Vladimir Georgivich Kornechevsky (1880–1959) Founder, honorary secretary (1950–54), first honorary member (1955). Born near Lida, then Russia now western Belarus. Education: Tzarist medical academy, Petrograd. Professor of Experimental Pathology at the University of Petrograd (1915–20) Founder of the ‘Club for Ageing’ (multiple branches), Founder of the International Association of Gerontology, elected chairman of the Research Committee of the International Association of Gerontology (1952). Seminal contributions in the area of ageing and sex hormones and of ‘auto-intoxication’. Author of Pathological and physiological ageing (1962) Edited by Dr Geoffrey Bourne and published posthumously. Professor Sir Peter Medawar OM CBE FRS (1915–1987) Lady Gertrude Maud Robinson [née Walsh] (1886–1954) 1960–1980 Dr Ioan Davies Professor Arthur Norman Exton-Smith (1920–1990). Dr DA Hall. Elected to the society (1954) Professor John Maynard Smith FRS (1920–2004). Dr Brian John Merry (1946–). Elected to membership of the society (1973), executive committee member