Congratulations to Steve O’Rahilly who has today been awarded the prestigious Rank Prize in Nutrition. The Nutrition prize of £80,000 will be presented to Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly for outstanding research that has advanced understanding of genetic causes of obesity and its treatment. The Rank Prize Funds were established in 1972 by the late Lord […]
Fiona Gribble becomes Vice President of EASD
Congratulations to Fiona Gribble who has been nominated as Vice President of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes and its closely-related Foundation (EASD/EFSD) with effect from January 1 2020. Professor Gribble’s term of office runs until the end of 2021. The EASD is a non-profit, medical scientific association founded in 1965 with aims […]
A mechanism for the effects of metformin on body weight and energy balance
New research published in Nature and undertaken in the MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit at the University of Cambridge, with collaborators at NGM Biopharmacueticals, the University of Glasgow and elsewhere, shows how metformin, the world’s most commonly prescribed anti-diabetic drug, works to reduce body weight. Metformin has been used to treat Type 2 diabetes for over […]
Manpei Suzuki International Prize
Congratulations to Professor Stephen O’Rahilly who has won the 2019 Manpei Suzuki International Prize – a prestigious annual award made to one individual for original and excellent achievements in diabetes research. Prof O’Rahilly will receive the award, a prize of $150K and a Japanese object d’art at a ceremony on March 4 2020. The Selection […]
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