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Why Endocrinology: What About Hormones?

thomaslandefeld_02 When I entered Marietta College (Ohio) on a football grant-in-aid and about to become a father, I knew that my college years were going to be most challenging. However, I loved science and chose a “comprehensive science/education” major so I could teach and coach upon graduation. My academic pursuits went well; however, during my senior...
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Pfizer Offers New Endocrinology Award

Pfizer has created a competitive grants award program to improve the care of patients with endocrine disorders as well as advance medical knowledge of the fundamental mechanisms of disease and potential future treatments. The 2016 U.S. Aspire Endocrinology Award is designed to support exceptional investigators working in the field of endocrinology as well as advance...
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Society Members Receive Prestigious NIEHS Early Career Awards

On March 1, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) announced the recipients of five awards, totaling $2.5 million, as part of the Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) Program. Endocrine Society members Daniel Gorelick, PhD, and Michele La Merrill, PhD, are among this year’s recipients of these highly-competitive grants. According to the NIH announcement:...
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Wartofksy Visits Society Offices

len lunch and learn On March 7, Leonard Wartofsky, MD, MACP, editor-in-chief of Endocrine Reviews, stopped by the Endocrine Society offices in Washington, DC, for a “lunch and learn” session with Society staff, to discuss his interest in endocrinology. Wartofsky is chairman of the Department of Medicine at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, a professor of medicine at Georgetown University,...
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Member Spotlight: Andrea Gore Honored by Senate of College Councils

Andrea Gore, PhD, professor of pharmacology at the University of Texas (UT) and editor in chief of Endocrinology has been awarded the Edith Clarke Woman of Excellence Award by the Senate of College Councils. According to The Daily Texan, the UT student newspaper, Gore was selected for her experience, research, mentorship program among her lab...