Three decades of landmark research into type 2 diabetes prevention abruptly ended this month due to government funding cuts. The Endocrine Society calls on the administration to restore the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) and DPP Outcomes Study funded through the National Institutes of Health. The Society is concerned about how the loss of this ongoing...
On March 18, Queen’s University in Kington, Ontario, Canada, announced that Lisa Tannock, MD, was appointed dean, Queen’s Health Sciences, and director of the School Medicine, effective July 1. Tannock will join Queen’s University from the University of Kentucky, where she is associate provost for faculty advancement and a professor in the Division of Endocrinology,...
On March 13, the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania voted unanimously to appoint Endocrine Society Past-President J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD, who has served as interim president since December 2023, president of the University for a term that will run through June 30, 2027. In announcing the appointment, Chair of the Board...
Endocrine Society members elected Nanette Santoro, MD (left) of the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, Colo., as its 2026-2027 President. She will serve as President-Elect for a year beginning in July 2025 before becoming President in June 2026. Santoro has served as E. Stewart Taylor Chair of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the...
Donald Patrick McDonnell, PhD, has been awarded the Endocrine Society’s John D. Baxter Prize for Entrepreneurship for discovering hormone therapies for treating breast and prostate cancer, the Society announced today. The John D. Baxter Prize for Entrepreneurship was established to recognize the extraordinary achievement of bringing an idea, product, service, or process to market. This...
To commemorate Black History Month, Endocrine News reached out to several of the Endocrine Society’s Black members to get their insights into their career accomplishments, goals, and even their challenges as well as advice they have for any young Black endocrinologists just beginning their careers. For nearly five decades, the month of February has been...
The Endocrine Society and the European Society of Endocrinology (ESE) are delighted to announce Professor Ashley Grossman, F.Med.Sci., as the winner of the 2025 Transatlantic Alliance Award. Grossman is emeritus professor of endocrinology at the University of Oxford and a senior research fellow at Green Templeton College in Oxford, U.K. He also is a consultant endocrinologist...
Marc Y. Donath, MD, medical director of the Diabetes Centre at the University Hospital Montreal, Canada, and chief physician in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at the University of Basel, Switzerland, has joined Olatec Therapeutics, Inc.’s Clinical Advisory Board (CAB). Donath, an immuno-endocrinologist, is globally recognized for his pioneering contributions to immunometabolism, particularly his discovery of...
On March 13, the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania voted unanimously to appoint Endocrine Society Past-President J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD, who has served as interim president since December 2023, president of the University for a term that will run through June 30, 2027. In announcing the appointment, Chair of the Board...
Donald Patrick McDonnell, PhD, has been awarded the Endocrine Society’s John D. Baxter Prize for Entrepreneurship for discovering hormone therapies for treating breast and prostate cancer, the Society announced today. The John D. Baxter Prize for Entrepreneurship was established to recognize the extraordinary achievement of bringing an idea, product, service, or process to market. This...
The Endocrine Society and the European Society of Endocrinology (ESE) are delighted to announce Professor Ashley Grossman, F.Med.Sci., as the winner of the 2025 Transatlantic Alliance Award. Grossman is emeritus professor of endocrinology at the University of Oxford and a senior research fellow at Green Templeton College in Oxford, U.K. He also is a consultant endocrinologist...
