Pharmacologist V. Craig Jordan, OBE, DSc, PhD, a 2018 recipient of the Endocrine Society’s Gerald D. Aurbach Award for Outstanding Translational Research, passed away at the age of 76. Jordan, a professor of Breast and Medical Oncology and Molecular and Cellular Oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discovered selective estrogen receptor modulators...Remembering “Father of Tamoxifen,” V. Craig Jordan, OBE, DSc, PhD
Pharmacologist V. Craig Jordan, OBE, DSc, PhD, a 2018 recipient of the Endocrine Society’s Gerald D. Aurbach Award for Outstanding Translational Research, passed away at the age of 76. Jordan, a professor of Breast and Medical Oncology and Molecular and Cellular Oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discovered selective estrogen receptor modulators...
The Endocrine Society is pleased to welcome its president for 2024 – 2025, John Newell-Price, MD, PhD, FRCP, who took office during ENDO 2024 in Boston. Newell-Price is Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. He is also head of the Endocrinology Service at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and of...
Instead of viewing being female, Latina, and LGBTQ+ as a hindrance in the realm of surgery, Julie Ann Sosa, MD, MA, FACS, instead proudly asserts that they are actually “superpowers.” And she is determined to harness those powers so that future generations will have an easier path. Pursuing a career in medicine is no easy...
In honor of National Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Endocrine News reached out to several of our U.S.-based Asian members to get their thoughts on their careers, accomplishments, goals, and even their challenges, as well as advice they have for any young Asian American endocrinologists just beginning their careers. Since 2009, when President...
Endocrine Society past-president Henry M. Kronenberg, MD, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), which recognizes achievement in science and provides science, engineering, and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations. Kronenberg, who served as Endocrine Society president from 2016 to 2017, has been chief of the Endocrine Unit...
Evan Dale Abel, former Rhodes Scholar, and current chair of the UCLA Department of Medicine, stands among the few deserving of the Koch Award, the highest honor of the Endocrine Society. Abel is an accomplished investigator in laboratory research focused on the complications of diabetes mellitus and their prevention. He has trained and inspired numerous...
The Endocrine Society has appointed Zane B. Andrews, PhD, of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, as editor-in-chief of its flagship basic science journal, Endocrinology. Andrews has been deputy editor of the journal since 2020 and will be taking on this role as previous editor-in-chief Carol Lange, PhD, of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minn.,...
