The Endocrine Society leadership is saddened to announce that valued friend and colleague P. Michael Conn, PhD, MS, died on November 26, 2016. Conn served as president of the Endocrine Society from June 1996 to June 1997. Conn was a pioneer in discovering the signaling mechanisms used by the GnRH receptor and, in recent years,... The Endocrine Society leadership is saddened to announce that valued friend and colleague P. Michael Conn, PhD, MS, died on November 26, 2016. Conn served as president of the Endocrine Society from June 1996 to June 1997. Conn was a pioneer in discovering the signaling mechanisms used by the GnRH receptor and, in recent years,...
Laura N. Vandenberg, PhD, an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at UMass Amherst’s School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS) in Amherst, Mass., has been named one of the Cornell Douglas Foundation’s 2016 Jean and Leslie Douglas Pearl Award winners for her “outstanding leadership in conducting critical research to identify and address the...
Conn’s Translational Neuroscience by Endocrine Society past president P. Michael Conn, PhD, MS, was recently published by Elsevier. Conn, senior vice president for research; associate provost, Texas Tech Health Science Center in Lubbock, served as Society president from 1996 to 1997. One of his major accomplishments while president was the creation of the Hormone Foundation,...
The fourth annual meeting of EndoBridge® — co-hosted by the Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism of Turkey, Endocrine Society, and European Society of Endocrinology — took place in Antalya, Turkey, October 20-23, 2016. The meeting brought together world leaders of endocrinology and 420 colleagues from 29 countries, and was held in English with simultaneous translation...
My passion for science and research was initially inspired by my mother. I grew up in a single-parent home and was fortunate to have a loving and strong mother who reinforced my dreams. She was the first person to expose me to science. In her efforts to motivate my science inquisitiveness, I remember receiving Christmas...
Endocrine Society past-president (1981- 1982) Melvin Malcom Grumbach, MD, known to the world as Mel, passed away October 4, 2016 at the age of 90. Mel was the Edward B. Shaw Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus, and former chairman of the Department of Pediatrics (1966-86) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and was a...
