Steven N. Austad, PhD, to receive inaugural George M. Martin Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award
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Steven N. Austad is the Protective Life Endowed Chair in Health Aging Research, a Distinguished professor and Chair of the Department of Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from 2014 to 2022. After earning a BA in English literature from UCLA, Austad left academia for a number of years during which among other things, he drove a taxi cab in New York City, worked as a newspaper reporter, and trained lions for television and movies. His interest in biology was awakened by his lion t
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