What better way for the importance of endocrine science and research to have a place at the table than having an endocrine scientist as the new director of the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)? NIDDK is seeking an exceptional investigator with a record...
Updated Edition of Endocrine and Metabolic Medical Emergencies Published
A second edition of Endocrine and Metabolic Medical Emergencies: A Clinician’s Guide, which was first published in 2014, was just released in March. Once again, Endocrine Society member Glenn Matfin, MSc, Mb ChB, FACE, FRCP, a consultant physician in acute and general internal medicine, diabetes and endocrinology in the UK National Health Service; and Professor...
Members in the News: Gerald I. Shulman Receives ADA’s Highest Honor
Endocrine Society member Gerald I. Shulman, MD, PhD, is the recipient of the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA’s) 2018 Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement, the ADA’s highest honor. The Banting Medal recognizes significant, long-term contributions to the understanding, treatment, or prevention of diabetes. Shulman will be recognized with this honor during the ADA’s 78th Scientific Sessions, June 22-26,...
Endocrine Society member David D. Thompson, PhD, has been named senior vice president and chief scientific officer at Inozyme Pharma, a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing treatments for rare and debilitating metabolic diseases. Thompson brings to Inozyme more than 30 years of experience designing and leading research and development programs focused on bone disorders and...
Remembering Neena B. Schwartz, PhD: A Lab & Life of Her Making
But you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction – what has that to do with a room of one’s own? … All I could do was offer you an opinion upon one minor point – a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to...
Safer Named First Executive Director at Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery
Joshua Safer, MD, an internationally renowned clinical endocrinologist and authority on transgender medicine, has joined the Mount Sinai Health System as executive director of the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery (CTMS), the first and only center in New York — and one of a few pioneers nationwide — to provide transgender patients with a...
Endocrine Society Awards Inaugural Baxter Prize to Women’s Health Entrepreneur
French researcher André Ulmann honored for innovation in hormone science, medicine French physician and researcher André Ulmann, M.D., Ph.D., won the Endocrine Society’s first-ever John D. Baxter Prize for Entrepreneurship for his advances in women’s health and rare endocrine conditions, the Society announced today. Ulmann founded HRA Pharma and built the company into a leader...
Lawrence Frohman, who passed away March 4, 2018, enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a brilliant neuroendocrinologist who made groundbreaking discoveries in the hypothalamic control of metabolism, and growth hormone production, and the genetics of familial growth hormone-secreting tumors. He performed pioneering work on the control of GH secretion and identified and partially purified...