Gerald D. Aurbach Award for Outstanding Translational Research V. Craig Jordan, OBE, DSc, PhD The Gerald D. Aurbach Award for Outstanding Translational Research is presented to V. Craig Jordan, OBE, DSC, PhD, for the discovery and development of a novel group of medicines called Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators (SERMs) applied to address the treatment and...
Daniel J. Drucker, MD, professor of medicine and the Banting and Best Diabetes Centre-Novo Nordisk Chair in Incretin Biology at the University of Toronto, and a senior scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, has been named editor-in-chief of Endocrine Reviews. “It is truly an honor to lead a...
Outstanding Public Service Award Irl Hirsch, MD For the past three decades, Irl Hirsch, MD, has dedicated his time to patient care, clinical research, teaching, and public service. His career can be summarized as promoting diabetes awareness to improve the lives of people with diabetes. His public service started in the 1980s as a volunteer...
Outstanding Mentor Award Joel Habener, MA, MD Joel Habener, MA, MD, has been a leader in the identification and characterization of peptide hormone genes, transcription factors and mechanisms regulating β-cell function and survival. Among the seminal discoveries emanating from his lab, the identification of the first biological actions of GLP-1 is perhaps the most...
Outstanding Leadership in Endocrinology Award Lawrence A. Frohman, MD Lawrence Frohman, MD, has had a long and distinguished career as a scientific and clinical leader, accomplished basic and clinical mentor, and outstanding teaching, service, and administrative achievements. He developed one of the first RIAs for rat growth hormone and identified and partially purified a GHRH...
Roy O. Greep Award for Outstanding Research Robert V. Farese Jr., MD Robert V. Farese Jr., MD, professor of genetics and complex diseases at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, is honored by the Endocrine Society with the Roy O. Greep Award for Outstanding Research for his seminal contributions to our understanding of cellular...
Outstanding Innovation Award Barry Komm, PhD Barry Komm, PhD, has been investigating the role of estrogens and SERMs in the reproductive tract since 1982, when he was a post-doctoral fellow with Richard Lyttle at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1985, Dr. Komm moved to the University of Arizona, where he studied the role of...
Outstanding Clinical Practitioner Award Marcello Bronstein, MD, PhD Marcello Bronstein, MD, PhD, is a unique professional physician with a remarkable record of clinical excellence and creative scholarship. Marcello is the consummate physician-healer-scholar-investigator. He runs a very large clinic treating thousands of patients with pituitary disorders — likely one of the largest such referral specialty care...