Submitted by aml95 on Wed, 10/09/2025 - 14:00
The Endocrine Society has announced 12 leading endocrinologists as winners of its prestigious 2026 Laureate Awards, the top honours in the field, including Professor Sadaf Farooqi, Professor of Metabolism and Medicine at the IMS-MRL, who has been awarded with the Gerald D. Aurbach Award for Outstanding Translational Research.
This annual award recognises outstanding contributions to research that accelerates the transition of scientific discoveries into clinical applications and Sadaf is being honoured for her discoveries of fundamental mechanisms that control human energy homeostasis. With colleagues, she discovered the first genes whose disruption causes severe obesity. In pioneering clinical studies, she established that the principal driver of human obesity is a failure of the central control of appetite and that the leptin-melanocortin pathway regulates food intake, macronutrient preference, food reward and body weight. Her research has changed the investigation, management and treatment of children and adults with severe obesity.
It is also doubly exciting, as it is the second year running that a leading researcher at the IMS-MRL has been honoured in this way. The 2025 award winner was Professor Krish Chatterjee, recognised for his contribution to the molecular basis of endocrine disorders and its application to clinical medicine. These two consecutive awards demonstrate great recognition for the IMS, the University of Cambridge and indeed the UK.
Established in 1944, the Society’s Laureate Awards recognize the highest achievements in the endocrinology field, including groundbreaking research and innovations in clinical care. The Endocrine Society will present the awards to the winners at ENDO 2026, the Society’s annual meeting in June.
Full press release and news story from the Endocrine Society
