For the fifth year in a row, Endocrine News spoke with editors from Endocrine Society journals to get the scoop on the top endocrine discoveries of 2019. Here is part 1 of Eureka! 2019. Editor-in-chief Teresa K. Woodruff, PhD, professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical Social Sciences, and Medicine at the Feinberg School of...
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Smith Named Dean of Baylor’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Carolyn Smith, PhD, professor of molecular and cellular biology and chair of the Endocrine Society’s Annual Meeting Steering Committee (AMSC), was named dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Smith is also a member of the Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center where her research...Endocrine Society Focuses on Transgender Care, Drug Pricing, EDCs and more at AMA HOD
The Endocrine Society sent a delegation, including members Amanda Bell and Shivani Agarwal, to participate in the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates (HOD) in November to establish policy positions on topics of importance to endocrinologists and the patients they treat. We attend the AMA meetings to further our policy agenda by garnering the support of...
EndoBridge 2019: Seventh Year of Solidarity in the World of Hormones
The seventh annual meeting of EndoBridge® took place October 24-27, 2019 in Antalya, Turkey, co-hosted by the Endocrine Society and European Society of Endocrinology in collaboration with the Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism of Turkey. The meeting was held in English with simultaneous translation into Russian, Arabic, and Turkish and accredited by the European Accreditation... While the House of Representatives has passed 10 of the 12 annual spending bills that fund the government, the Senate has passed only four, and the two chambers have not resolved their differences on any of them. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) has said that the chamber will pass a second stopgap spending bill,...
Endocrine Society Scientific Leaders Share Research Priorities with NIH
During November, the Endocrine Society conducted meetings with leadership at the National Institutes of Health to discuss research goals and other opportunities to partner with the institutes to advance the field. Anne Cappola, MD, ScM, and Holly Brown-Borg, PhD, met with Richard Hodes, MD, director of the National Institute on Aging (NIA); and Jennifer Richer,...
Endocrine Society Educates Congress About the Science of PFAS Exposure
On Wednesday, November 6, the Endocrine Society hosted a congressional briefing to share the latest science with policy makers on how research conducted and funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is helping us understand and address the health effects of exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS. The...
Endocrine News talks with Laura Alonso, MD, from Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center where she discusses research funding and how she hopes her research improves the lives of patients with diabetes. Laura Alonso, MD, is a physician-scientist working on a cutting-edge approach to replenish the body’s insulin-producing beta cells to treat diabetes....