Endocrine Society member Matthias Tschöp, MD, has been awarded the 2026 Rolf Luft Award for outstanding groundbreaking scientific contributions to fields of diabetes and obesity basic research leading to important clinical implications. He shares the award with Richard Dennis DiMarchi from Indiana University in Bloomington. Tschöp, president of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), is an internationally renowned...
Daniel J. Drucker, MD, Receives the 2026 Lefoulon-Delalande Foundation Scientific Prize
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...Remembering Endocrine Society Past-President, Delbert A. Fisher, MD
Delbert A. Fisher, past-president of the Endocrine Society and former editor of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, passed away March 4, 2026, at the age of 97. Fisher was a pediatric endocrinologist best known for his work in delineating fetal and newborn thyroid physiology, which led to the launch of newborn screening for...
Italian Researchers Win Endocrine Society’s 2026 Endocrine Images Art Competition
Anna Pilatone and Gabriella Milan won the Endocrine Society’s 2026 Endocrine Images Art Competition for their microscopy image of a pre-adipocyte cell (left). Pilatone and Milan are research biologists in the Endocrine and Metabolic Lab at the Department of Medicine, University of Padova, and at the Center for the Study and Integrated Treatment of Obesity,...Members in the News: Joseph T. Bass, MD, PhD, Elected to the AAAS
Endocrine Society member Joseph T. Bass, MD, PhD, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAAS). Bass is the Charles F. Kettering Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Ill. As a world leader in circadian biology and endocrinology, his creativity and insights as an endocrinologist...Endocrine Society Congratulates 2026 Early Investigator Award Winners
The Endocrine Society has selected five recipients for its Early Investigator Awards. The Early Investigators Awards were established to help develop early career investigators and recognize their accomplishments in endocrine-related research. Recipients will receive a $1,500 monetary award, complimentary registration and the opportunity to present at ENDO 2026, one year of free membership to the Society, and public recognition of research accomplishments in various Society platforms. ...
Endocrine Society member, Daniel Hochbaum, MD, has received a Pershing Square Foundation Award “MIND” Prize, which includes a $750,000, three year grant. Hochbaum, an assistant professor in the Program in Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is investigating how age-related declines in thyroid hormone signaling in the brain may...
Endocrine Society members elected Joy Wu, MD, PhD, of the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, Calif., as its 2027 – 2028 President. She will serve as president-elect for a year beginning in June 2026 before becoming president in June 2027. Wu is the Gerald M. Reaven, MD Professor of Endocrinology, chief of the Division of Endocrinology and vice chair of basic...
