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Each year the recipient(s) of the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize are recognized at a scientific symposium hosted by Harvard Medical School.
2020 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize Virtual Symposium - "Cardiometabolic Medicines From the Gut: The Glucagon-Like Peptide Story"
In honor of Daniel Drucker, Joel Habener, Jens Juul Holst for identifying the family of Glucagon-Like Peptides through studies extending from cells to humans, culminating in the development of these peptides and related pathway-modifiers as important new classes of therapeutic agents for treating diabetes, obesity and short bowel syndrome.
Featured Speakers Include:
Fiona Gribble, DPhil, BM, BCh, Professor of Endocrine Physiology, WT-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Gut endocrine cells - chemosensors of the postprandial state
Jens Juul Holst, MD, DMSc, Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Group Leader, Translational Metabolic Physiology, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, GLP-1 in humans
Joel Habener, MD, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Endocrinology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Glucagon-like Peptide-1: Discovery, Structure, Activity
Daniel Drucker, MD, Senior Scientist, the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada, Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto, The protean peptide GLP-1; From metabolism to inflammation and cardioprotection
Matthias H. Tschöp, MD, Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Technical University of Munich, Chief Executive Officer and Scientific Director, Helmholtz Center Munich, Glucagon-like polyagonists - discovery, mechanism and clinical translation
