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Endocrine Society Updates Osteoporosis Clinical Practice Guideline

New recommendations include romosozumab therapy for high risk patients The Endocrine Society today announced an update to its osteoporosis Clinical Practice Guideline to include recommendations for romosozumab, a new medication that was approved last year to treat postmenopausal women at high risk of fracture. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved romosozumab in April 2019,...
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ENDO 2020 Preview: Day by Day Highlights

sf palace No doubt your days will be packed while you’re at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, weaving through the crowds as you make your way to various sessions and presentations at ENDO 2020. Here are just a few highlights – among hundreds – that might appeal to you. Saturday March 28 The Business of Running a Lab:...
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Endocrine Society Awards Baxter Prize to Daniel J. Drucker

Drucker headshot Researcher Daniel J. Drucker, MD, has been awarded the Endocrine Society’s John D. Baxter Prize for Entrepreneurship for his contributions to diabetes treatment, the Society announced today. Drucker’s research has contributed greatly to the understanding and treatment of diabetes over the last 25 years. He discovered new mechanisms of hormone action enabling the development of...
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ENDO 2020: San Francisco Treats

SanFranLoRez ENDO 2020 is heading west so Endocrine News is hoping to encourage you to attend the most important meeting of endocrinology scientists and clinicians from around the world by tempting you with a few highlights of this year’s host city: San Francisco. San Francisco is known for its cable cars, iconic bridge, and for being...
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Remembering Jean E. Rivier, PhD (1941 – 2019)

Jean Rivier Jean Rivier was a chemist both in training and spirit, but by isolating and characterizing many then-undiscovered peptide hormones, and providing the synthetic peptide tools critical to experimental biology to study them, he became a pioneer of our modern understanding of the biological roles of peptides in regulating nearly all physiologic systems ranging from endocrinology...
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Smith Named Dean of Baylor’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Smith.Carolyn.L.990509.Mol&CellBio Carolyn Smith, PhD, professor of molecular and cellular biology and chair of the Endocrine Society’s Annual Meeting Steering Committee (AMSC), was named dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Smith is also a member of the Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center where her research...
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EndoBridge 2019: Seventh Year of Solidarity in the World of Hormones

EB 2019 LOGO The seventh annual meeting of EndoBridge® took place October 24-27, 2019 in Antalya, Turkey, co-hosted by the Endocrine Society and European Society of Endocrinology in collaboration with the Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism of Turkey. The meeting was held in English with simultaneous translation into Russian, Arabic, and Turkish and accredited by the European Accreditation...