Annual ICON Awards - UCLA Longevity Center

UCLA LONGEVITY CENTER TO HONOR

JANE & TERRY SEMEL
ICON Award for Visionary Leadership in Science and Medicine

SHLOMO & STEVE RECHNITZ
ICON Award for Visionary Leadership in Business and Philanthropy

SIDNEY POITIER
ICON Award for Artistic Excellence

Founded in 1991 as the UCLA Center on Aging, the UCLA Longevity Center, now an essential component of the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, represents the best of UCLA. Calling upon the talents of faculty, researchers, and students from across campus, it demonstrates the power of interdisciplinary collaboration to address real-world challenges. Through cutting-edge research and innovative programs that reach out to the Los Angeles community and beyond, the Center’s endeavors are improving lives every day.

Past ICON Award recipients include: Jane Fonda, James Colins, Dr. Bradley R. Straatsma, Col. Buzz Aldrin, Hugh Downs, Robert Ahmanson, Nanette Fabray MacDougall, Art Linkletter, Dr. Jerome and Judith Tamkin, Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer, John Wooden, Larry King, Connie Stevens, Bruce Corbin, Della Reese, Carl Reiner, Drs. Michael Phelps, Hillel Laks and William Dignam, Tony Martin and Cyd Charisse, Norman Corwin, David Haft, Pascal, Mimi Perloff and George C. Page.