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...
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...
ENDO 2016 Preview: Q&A with Teresa K. Woodruff: Jump Starting Your Career
Endocrine News spoke with four of this year’s Early Career Forum speakers to get a sneak peek of their presentations at ENDO 2016 in Boston. In this installment, we talk with Teresa K. Woodruff, PhD, of Northwestern University. Next month at ENDO 2016 in Boston, physicians and researchers just starting out will have the opportunity...
ENDO 2016 Preview: Q&A with Lori Raetzman: Jump Starting Your Career
Endocrine News spoke with four of this year’s Early Career Forum speakers to get a sneak peek of their presentations at ENDO 2016 in Boston. In this installment, we talk with Lori Raetzman, PhD, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Next month at ENDO 2016 in Boston, physicians and researchers just starting out will have the opportunity...
ENDO 2016 Preview: Q&A with James Hennessey: Jump Starting Your Career
Endocrine News spoke with four of this year’s Early Career Forum speakers to get a sneak peek of their presentations at ENDO 2016 in Boston. In this installment, we talk with James Hennessey, MD, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Next month at ENDO 2016 in Boston, physicians and researchers just starting out will have...
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:...
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,...
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...