Lori Raetzman, PhD, discusses mentoring and conducting science in challenging times. When she’s not in her lab studying the effects of environmental chemicals on female reproductive aging, Lori T. Raetzman, PhD, is busy guiding the next generation of endocrine scientists, which makes her an ideal candidate to receive the Endocrine Society’s 2025 Sydney Ingber Award...
Recipient of the Endocrine Society’s 2025 Roy O. Greep Award for Outstanding Research, Barbara Kahn, MD, discovered very early on that pursuing basic science could be just as rewarding as treating patients with chronic illnesses. She tells Endocrine News about her career journey, why she relishes working with so many enthusiastic junior scientists, and the... The Endocrine Society’s 2025 Outstanding Mentor Laureate Award recipient Ellen Seely, MD, mentors both early-career endocrinologists as well as peers both in the U.S. and abroad. She discusses this unique arrangement as well as the excitement she feels when previous mentees become her research colleagues. For Ellen Seely, MD, mentoring is a rewarding, reciprocal relationship...
Recipients of the Endocrine Society’s 2025 Edwin B. Astwood Award for Outstanding Research in Basic Science, David Mangelsdorf, PhD, and Steven Kliewer, PhD, have spent a lot of time in the lab with drunken mice. Find out how these besotted rodents may hold the secrets behind the evolution of how fibroblast growth factor 21 might...
The Endocrine Society’s 2025 recipient of the Gerald D. Aurbach Award for Outstanding Translational Research, V. Krishna Chatterjee, MD, tells Endocrine News why it’s so important for clinicians and basic scientists to work together to improve human health. In 2021, when our lives were still gripped by the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, V. Krishna Chatterjee, MD,... On the heels of receiving nearly $10 million from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), Rohit N. Kulkarni, MD, PhD, discusses how his team will use this grant to pursue new approaches to studying type 2 diabetes and obesity by exploring gene expression and regulatory activity in multiple metabolic cells. ...
Discussing endocrine science with the 2024 Early Investigator Award Winners Every year the Endocrine Society recognizes endocrinologists who are in the early stages of their research careers with the Early Investigator Awards. Endocrine News spoke to the five award recipients from around the world to find out more about their award-winning research, the award’s potential...
Fourth-year graduate student Tanya Pierre at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Comprehensive Diabetes Center talks to Endocrine News about when she realized that she could “do science” as a career, how she hopes her research will help her community, and the importance of awards to help young researchers continue their work. For many young...
