Eleftheria Maratos-Flier, MD Roy O. Greep Award for Outstanding Research Obesity and its metabolic complications including type 2 diabetes and fatty liver disease, are among the greatest challenges to health around the world. At the heart of this problem is understanding energy balance — a complex network of interactions between the periphery and the brain.... Eleftheria Maratos-Flier, MD Roy O. Greep Award for Outstanding Research Obesity and its metabolic complications including type 2 diabetes and fatty liver disease, are among the greatest challenges to health around the world. At the heart of this problem is understanding energy balance — a complex network of interactions between the periphery and the brain....
Carol A. Lange, PhD Sidney H. Ingbar Distinguished Service Award Dr. Lange joined the Endocrine Society and Women in Endocrinology (WE) while training as a postdoctoral fellow in the Kate Horwitz laboratory (1996-1999). Notably, she has attended every annual meeting since 1996 and has routinely chaired sessions, reviewed abstracts, judged posters, and led “Meet the...
Ashley Grossman, MD, FRCP Outstanding Mentor Award Ashley Grossman has trained many leading endocrinologists in Europe and the world. With his amazing ability to combine superb clinical knowledge and many years of patient-related experience with up-to-date detailed knowledge of basic science, he enthusiastically transferred his love of academic and clinical endocrinology to his younger colleagues....
Andrew Dauber, MD Richard E. Weitzman Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award Andrew Dauber, MD, is the chief of endocrinology at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. He is an exceptional clinician-scientist who has successfully applied innovative genetic technologies to pediatric endocrinology and with friendly international collaborations his discoveries made major contributions to our understanding of...
Researcher Daniel J. Drucker, MD, has been awarded the Endocrine Society’s John D. Baxter Prize for Entrepreneurship for his contributions to diabetes treatment, the Society announced today. Drucker’s research has contributed greatly to the understanding and treatment of diabetes over the last 25 years. He discovered new mechanisms of hormone action enabling the development of...
Five endocrinologists to join Board of Directors Endocrine Society members have elected Carol H. Wysham, MD, to serve as the organization’s President for the 2021-2022 term. Wysham is an endocrinologist at Rockwood/MultiCare Health Systems in Spokane, Wash., and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington. She will serve as President-Elect for a year...
Jean Rivier was a chemist both in training and spirit, but by isolating and characterizing many then-undiscovered peptide hormones, and providing the synthetic peptide tools critical to experimental biology to study them, he became a pioneer of our modern understanding of the biological roles of peptides in regulating nearly all physiologic systems ranging from endocrinology...
