Share

Meet the 2020 Laureates: Andrew Dauber, MD

20180807_andrew_dauber_005 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...
Share

Endocrine Society Awards Baxter Prize to Daniel J. Drucker

Drucker headshot 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...
Share

Remembering Jean E. Rivier, PhD (1941 – 2019)

Jean Rivier 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...