When Patricia Lee Brubaker, PhD, the Endocrine Society’s 2026 recipient of the Outstanding Mentor Laureate Award, was interviewing potential candidates to join her laboratory, she always kept in mind that she needed to choose someone she really liked as well as respected. Mentorship is one of the most powerful forces in shaping scientific careers —...
Researchers can register and submit abstracts for the first joint meeting hosted by the Endocrine Society and Keystone Symposia — an intimate meeting designed to bring together researchers to advance understanding of how hormonal signaling shapes cancer risk, progression and treatment response. Hormonal Influences on Immunity and Cancer Across the Lifespan, taking place in October in Breckenridge, Colo., will be the first of three joint meetings held by the organizations, which...
Endocrine Society member Daniel J. Drucker, MD, and Jens Juul Holst, MD, DMSc, have been honored with the 2026 Lefoulon-Delalande Foundation Scientific Prize from the Institut de France for their work on GLP-1s, a key hormone in metabolic regulation. Each year, the Lefoulon-Delalande Foundation awards its Scientific Prize to a scientist who has made a...
An Endocrine News roundup of the week’s pharmaceutical news, breakthroughs, and general information. * Revvity Receives FDA Clearance for Total Testosterone Assay Enabling Comprehensive Automated Testosterone Testing Solution On May 13, Revvity, Inc., through its subsidiary, Immunodiagnostic Systems (IDS), today announced that it received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its...
At ENDO 2026, taking place June 13 – 16 in Chicago, “Beyond Basic DXA” is set to challenge how clinicians think about bone health assessment. Angela M. Cheung, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine at the University Health Network and the University of Toronto, will lead “Beyond Basic DXA” on Day 4 (Monday, June 15),...
Exposure to common endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) during pregnancy may significantly alter the reproductive development of female infants during their first months of life, according to a new study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Researchers found that daughters of women with higher concentrations of certain chemicals in their systems during pregnancy exhibited...
Global effort changes the name of a significant women’s health condition that was misunderstood to be ‘all about ovarian cysts’ Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS) is the new name for the condition previously known as Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), which impacts one in eight, or more than 170 million women worldwide. More than 50 patient and professional organizations, including the Endocrine...
Effective long-term management of osteoporosis requires a carefully choreographed sequence of medications, as certain drug transitions can significantly enhance or inadvertently undermine bone density, according to a clinical review published by researchers at Aarhus University. The article, “Approach to the Patient—Transitions in Osteoporosis Therapy,” appearing in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, emphasizes that...
Endocrine Society member Daniel J. Drucker, MD, and Jens Juul Holst, MD, DMSc, have been honored with the 2026 Lefoulon-Delalande Foundation Scientific Prize from the Institut de France for their work on GLP-1s, a key hormone in metabolic regulation. Each year, the Lefoulon-Delalande Foundation awards its Scientific Prize to a scientist who has made a...
