Endocrine Society Celebrates Special Diabetes Program Extension
The Endocrine Society applauds Congress for approving the first funding increase for the Special Diabetes Program in two decades. The U.S. Senate voted Friday March 8 to extend the program, which supports both diabetes care and research into type 1 diabetes, until the end of 2024. This is part of the six-bill package funding several...
Endocrine Society members elected Carol Lange, PhD, of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minn., as its 2025-2026 president. She will serve as president-elect for a year beginning in June 2024 before becoming President in June 2025. A professor of medicine and molecular pharmacology and therapeutics, Lange also holds the Tickle Family Land Grant Endowed...
Endocrine Society member and 2024 recipient of the Transatlantic Alliance Award, Felix Beuschlein, MD, has been named editor-in-chief of the European Society of Endocrinology (ESE)’s flagship journal, the European Journal of Endocrinology (EJE). He will assume his post in May 2024 when the current editor-in-chief and fellow Endocrine Society member, Wiebke Arlt, MD, DSc, FRCP,...
The research world has lost an innovator, mentor, advocate, and friend. It is with great sadness that the Endocrine Society reports that John Helmer Nilson, former editor-in-chief of Molecular Endocrinology, vice president for basic science, and recipient of the 2011 Sidney H. Ingbar Award for Distinguished Service, passed away in September while on holiday in...
J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD, was named interim president of the University of Pennsylvania in a unanimous motion by the school’s board of trustees last month. Jameson had previously served as dean of Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine. “Penn is a remarkable institution that I am honored and humbled to lead and serve,” Jameson says. “Penn, like...