For the first time since World War II, the Endocrine Society has cancelled its annual conference, ENDO 2020, following dire reports regarding COVID-19 from the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and local health authorities in San Francisco, the site of the conference. “We have been clear all along that...
Christopher B. Newgard, PhD Outstanding Innovation Award Christopher B. Newgard’s professional career has been devoted to metabolic research. Within the Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center and Duke Molecular Physiology Institute (DMPI) where he is the director, he has developed a suite of comprehensive molecular profiling platforms across the “omics” sciences to support the...
Donald P. McDonnell, PhD Gerald D. Aurbach Award for Outstanding Translational Research Donald P. McDonnell challenged longstanding models of nuclear receptor (NR) endocrine pharmacology which had held that an agonist was a “switch” that induced activating conformational changes in a NR, while antagonists functioned as competitive inhibitors that would freeze receptors in an inactive (apo)...
John C. Marshall, MD, PhD Outstanding Leadership in Endocrinology Award John C. Marshall is a world-renowned, highly innovative reproductive endocrinologist. After developing the first gonadotropin radioimmunoassays in the UK, John’s initial studies elucidated the physiology of luteinizing hormone (LH)/follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) secretion in health and disease. John published the first gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH)...
Eleftheria Maratos-Flier, MD Roy O. Greep Award for Outstanding Research Obesity and its metabolic complications including type 2 diabetes and fatty liver disease, are among the greatest challenges to health around the world. At the heart of this problem is understanding energy balance — a complex network of interactions between the periphery and the brain....
Carol A. Lange, PhD Sidney H. Ingbar Distinguished Service Award Dr. Lange joined the Endocrine Society and Women in Endocrinology (WE) while training as a postdoctoral fellow in the Kate Horwitz laboratory (1996-1999). Notably, she has attended every annual meeting since 1996 and has routinely chaired sessions, reviewed abstracts, judged posters, and led “Meet the...
Ashley Grossman, MD, FRCP Outstanding Mentor Award Ashley Grossman has trained many leading endocrinologists in Europe and the world. With his amazing ability to combine superb clinical knowledge and many years of patient-related experience with up-to-date detailed knowledge of basic science, he enthusiastically transferred his love of academic and clinical endocrinology to his younger colleagues....
Andrew Dauber, MD Richard E. Weitzman Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award Andrew Dauber, MD, is the chief of endocrinology at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. He is an exceptional clinician-scientist who has successfully applied innovative genetic technologies to pediatric endocrinology and with friendly international collaborations his discoveries made major contributions to our understanding of...
