Roy Shires, MBBCh, PhD, FRCP International Excellence in Endocrinology Award Roy Shires is a professor of medicine at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He became the first head of the Division of Endocrinology at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, the world’s third largest hospital and the only tertiary medical facility serving the largely impoverished and... Roy Shires, MBBCh, PhD, FRCP International Excellence in Endocrinology Award Roy Shires is a professor of medicine at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He became the first head of the Division of Endocrinology at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, the world’s third largest hospital and the only tertiary medical facility serving the largely impoverished and...
Richard J. Santen, MD Fred Conrad Koch Lifetime Achievement Award Richard J. Santen, MD, is professor of medicine at the University of Virginia and a former president of the Endocrine Society. His impressive clinical and research career has focused on both prostate and breast cancer. His pioneering work led to the development of first, second,...
Alvin C. Powers, MD Outstanding Educator Award Alvin C. Powers, director of the Vanderbilt Diabetes Center, has made special contributions to education as director of the Vanderbilt Medical Student Research Training Program and director of the NIDDK Medical Student Research Program (DK-MSRP). The former is a NIH-supported program enabling medical students from throughout the nation...
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....
