(2009), honorary member (2011). Born Bath, United Kingdom. Education, Convent of the Sacred Heart School, Tunbridge Wells and St Anne's College, Oxford (BA Zoology, DPhil). Seminal contributions to gerontology include her research into the evolution of ageing, dietary restriction and the biology of extended lifespan mutants. Named one of six Women of Outstanding Achievement in Science, Engineering and Technology (2009), awarded foreign honorary membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010). Honorary degrees (DSc) from the Universities of St. Andrews, Bath, Oxford, and Brighton. Other awards and honours include the Foundation IPSEN Longevity Prize (2004), Living Legend, Help the Aged (2006) and the Royal Society Croonian Prize Lecture (2009) Weldon Professor and Director of Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London and founding director of the Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany. Dr Suresh Inder Singh Rattan (1955–) Cohen Medallist (2011). Born in Amritsar, India. Educated Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU), Amritsar (BSc), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India (M.Sc.), National Institute for Medical Research, United Kingdom (PhD, 1985), Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Aarhus (DSc, 1995). Seminal contribution to gerontology is the theory of hormesis and the concept of virtual gerontogenes. Founding editor-in-chief of Biogerontology. Author of multiple scientific works and of the children’s book Where's Baba Gone? Professor Arlen Richardson, Cohen Medallist (2008), honorary member (2011) Dr M. Jill Saffrey (1954–) Elected to the Society (2000), Executive Committee member (2011–2017), Hon Treasurer (2014–2017). Born London, United Kingdom, grew up in Somerset. Educated at Bishop Fox’s girls grammar school, Taunton and University College, London (BSc Microbiology; PhD Anatomy & Embryology). Doctoral thesis on the development of the enteric nervous system in vivo and in vitro. Postdoctoral positions at UCL and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Appointed to the Academic Staff of the Open University (1994). Research interest is the ageing of the gastrointestinal system, particularly the enteric nervous system. Professor Claire Elisabeth Hamilton Stewart (1966–) Elected to the BSRA executive committee (2014), Meetings Secretary (2015). Born Johannesburg, South Africa. Moved to Zug, Switzerland aged 9. Educated at Parktown Convent (Johannesburg), Anglo-American School of Zug and the American International School of Zurich. One year working in Wuppertal, Germany, before studying at the University of Glasgow (Developmental Biology, 2.i Hons). One year as R&D scientist at Amersham International. PhD on the role of insulin-like growth factors and muscle hypertrophy (LSHTM and Babraham Institute,