Diabetes Care Research Award Announced
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Boehringer Mannheim and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International
(JDFI) today presented the $100,000 Boehringer Mannheim/JDFI Diabetes
Care Research Award to two U.S. researchers during the closing
ceremonies
of the International Diabetes Federation Congress. The award was
presented to Mike Mueckler, Ph.D., Washington University, and Gerald I.
Shulman, M.D., Ph.D., Yale University.
Drs. Mueckler and Shulman have shed light on two important biological
functions related to diabetes: glucose transport and glucose
metabolism.
Dr. Mueckler pioneered the identification and characterization of
glucose transporter genes that are critical for the regulation of blood
sugar levels. Dr. Shulman has used nuclear magnetic resonance
techniques
to make the first real-time measurements of glycogen synthesis and its
intermediate steps in human skeletal muscle in response to insulin.
Each year, award winners are selected by a panel of ten international
diabetes thought leaders. Other distinguished researchers honored
during
the 3-year history of the Diabetes Care Research Award include: John
Todd, Ph. D., principal research fellow for the Wellcome Trust in
Oxford,
England; and Morris F. White, M.D., and Steven E. Shoelson, M.D.,
Ph.D.,
from the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston.
Currently, nominations are being accepted for the 1998 Boehringer
Mannheim/JDFI Diabetes Care Research Award for researchers under the age
of 45 whose work is better defining how diabetes and its complications
can be prevented, detected, treated and cured. For additional
information and the 1998 nomination packet, interested diabetes
specialists and researchers should contact:
Dr. Joachim Thiery
Boehringer Mannheim Patient Care
Tel: ++49 621 759 3142
Fax: ++49 621 759 4607
E-mail: Joachim_Thiery at bmg.boehringer-mannheim.com
