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Endocrine Society Honors Endocrinology Field’s Leaders with 2025 Laureate Awards

The Endocrine Society today announced it has chosen 14 leading endocrinologists as winners of its prestigious 2025 Laureate Awards, the top honors in the field. Endocrinologists are scientists and medical doctors who specialize in unraveling the mysteries of hormone disorders to care for patients and cure diseases. These professionals have achieved breakthroughs in scientific discoveries and...
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Remembering Endocrine Society Past-President Maria I. New, MD

1856808_NewMaria_01 (1) Maria I. New, MD, who served as the Endocrine Society’s president from 1991 to 1992, passed away on July 26, 2024. New was revered for her studies of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), which subsequently led to treatments to correct the disorder prior to childbirth. Her groundbreaking identification of mineralcorticoid excess resulted in a new area...
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Remembering “Father of Tamoxifen,” V. Craig Jordan, OBE, DSc, PhD

Jordan, V. Craig 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...
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Applauding Our Asian American Members: Endocrine News Celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

EN May 2024 Cover 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...
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Henry Kronenberg Elected to NAS

Kronenberg, Henry (PE 2015) 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...