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The Path of Kahn: Q&A with Barbara Kahn, MD, Recipient of the 2025 Roy O. Greep Award for Outstanding Research

1 week ago | endocrinenews.endocrine.org | Glenda Fauntleroy Shaw |Derek Bagley

Barbara Kahn, MD, initially pursued medical school to understand how the human body works and to help patients with chronic illnesses. During her general medicine fellowship, her cross-over study on blood glucose and urine glucose monitoring led to invitations from U.K. researchers to tour their research institutes — a pivotal experience that revealed basic research as an alternate path to her goal of helping people with chronic illnesses live long, gratifying lives.
Mentoring Without Borders: Q&A with Ellen Seely, MD

2 months ago | endocrinenews.endocrine.org | Glenda Fauntleroy Shaw |Derek Bagley |Mark Newman

For Ellen Seely, MD, mentoring is a rewarding, reciprocal relationship where both the mentor and mentee benefit from the experience. This ideal rings true as she shares her pride at watching young mentees of her past blossom into accomplished research colleagues.
Dr. Smith Goes to Washington

Dec 9, 2024 | endocrinenews.endocrine.org | Glenda Fauntleroy Shaw |Derek Bagley |Mark Newman

Lorenzo Smith attributes part of his early-career success to the many teachers and mentors who encouraged him to pursue a life in science or research. And as one of the Endocrine Society’s most dedicated advocates on Capitol Hill, he now makes it his mission to pay it forward to help others benefit from the research discoveries of scientists like him.
Deciphering Science: Q&A with V. Krishna Chatterjee, MD

Dec 6, 2024 | endocrinenews.endocrine.org | Glenda Fauntleroy Shaw |Derek Bagley |Mark Newman

In 2021, when our lives were still gripped by the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, V. Krishna Chatterjee, MD, pivoted to join U.K. researchers on the world’s first clinical trial to study the effectiveness of the booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The trial was conducted at unprecedented speed — signaling hope to Chatterjee that translating discovery science into health benefits for other diseases could also be done at a faster pace.
Do Vitamin D Supplements Lower Blood Pressure in Older People with Obesity?

Nov 12, 2024 | endocrinenews.endocrine.org | Glenda Fauntleroy Shaw |Mark Newman

Vitamin D supplements may lower blood pressure in older people with obesity and taking more than the Institutes of Medicine’s (IOM) recommended daily dose does not provide additional health benefits, according to new research published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society. The IOM recommends 600 International Units (IU) per day. Vitamin D deficiency is common worldwide and has been associated with heart disease, immunological diseases, infections and cancer.
Unsolved Mysteries: After Four Decades, Daniel Drucker, MD, Is Still Unlocking Scientific Secrets

Nov 8, 2024 | endocrinenews.endocrine.org | Glenda Fauntleroy Shaw |Mark Newman

Daniel Drucker, MD, knows the enormous impact his discoveries have made to lives of those living with diabetes and obesity, but after 40 years of scientific research, he believes there’s still more mysteries for him to unlock.
2024 Researchers Roundtable

Jul 17, 2024 | endocrinenews.endocrine.org | Mark Newman |Derek Bagley |Glenda Fauntleroy Shaw

When the recipients of the Endocrine Society’s 2024 Early Investigator Awards presented their research at ENDO 2024, the atmosphere was electric and filled with anticipation at the Boston Convention and Expo Center.
Community Service: How Joshua J. Joseph, MD, MPH, Is Leveling the Healthcare Playing Field for All

Jul 10, 2024 | endocrinenews.endocrine.org | Glenda Fauntleroy Shaw |Derek Bagley |Mark Newman

Early life experiences often have an indelible impact on choices we make later in life. For Joshua J. Joseph, MD, MPH, the pain of losing his grandmother to a heart attack after many years of living with diabetes spurred a deep curiosity about cardiometabolic disease and a determination to end the suffering it causes for so many others.
Sweet Homeostasis Alabama: Q&A with Tanya Pierre

Jul 8, 2024 | endocrinenews.endocrine.org | Glenda Fauntleroy Shaw |Derek Bagley |Mark Newman

For many young researchers, working to unlock the mysteries of diseases is coupled with balancing the financial burdens of educational and laboratory expenses. But for Tanya Pierre, a fourth-year graduate student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), the balancing was recently made tremendously easier. Pierre is a recipient of the Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31) — a reward that honors young scientists’ hard work and promising futures.
Full Circle: Q&A with New Endocrinology Editor-in-Chief, Zane Andrews, PhD

Jun 17, 2024 | endocrinenews.endocrine.org | Derek Bagley |Glenda Fauntleroy Shaw

This month, Zane Andrews, PhD, of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, will begin his tenure as editor-in-chief of Endocrinology, as the previous editor-in-chief, Carol Lange, PhD, of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minn., steps down to transition into her new position as the Endocrine Society’s president-elect.