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Banting Lectures
The Banting Memorial Lectures are a yearly series of research presentations given by an expert in diabetes. The name of the lecture series refers to Canadian physician Sir Frederick Banting, who was a seminal scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate for the co-discovery of insulin. The lectures are currently hosted by the American Diabetes Association. List of past Banting lectures * 1952: ''Insulin'', Charles Best (medical scientist), Charles H. BestPMID 12979967* 1954: ''Hormones of the Pituitary Posterior Lobe'', Henry Hallett Dale, Sir Henry DalePMID 14365538* 1956: ''Recent Advances in Insulin Research'', William C. StadiePMID 13356715* 1957: ''Certain Aspects of the Metabolism of Glycogen'', DeWitt Stetten Jr.]PMID 13461755* 1959: ''The Adrenal and Diabetes: Some Interactions and Interrelations'', George W. Thorn, Albert Renold, Albert E. Renold, George F. Cahill Jr.]PMID 13838198* 1960: ''Childhood Diabetes: Its Course, and Influence on the Second and Third Generations'', Priscil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diabetes
Diabetes, also known as diabetes mellitus, is a group of metabolic disorders characterized by a high blood sugar level ( hyperglycemia) over a prolonged period of time. Symptoms often include frequent urination, increased thirst and increased appetite. If left untreated, diabetes can cause many health complications. Acute complications can include diabetic ketoacidosis, hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state, or death. Serious long-term complications include cardiovascular disease, stroke, chronic kidney disease, foot ulcers, damage to the nerves, damage to the eyes, and cognitive impairment. Diabetes is due to either the pancreas not producing enough insulin, or the cells of the body not responding properly to the insulin produced. Insulin is a hormone which is responsible for helping glucose from food get into cells to be used for energy. There are three main types of diabetes mellitus: * Type 1 diabetes results from failure of the pancreas to produce enough insulin due to lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solomon Berson
Solomon Aaron Berson (April 22, 1918 – April 11, 1972) was an American physician and scientist whose discoveries, mostly together with Rosalyn Yalow, caused major advances in clinical biochemistry.Rall JE. ''Solomon A. Berson''. In "Biographical Memoirs". National Academy of Sciences 1990;59:54-71. Fulltext Five years after Berson's death, Yalow received a Nobel Prize, which cannot be awarded posthumously, for their joint work on the radioimmunoassay. Biography Early life Born in New York City, Berson was a keen musician and chess player. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1938. After failing to obtain a place in medical school he earned an MSc (1939) and an anatomy instructorship at New York University before finally securing a place in NYU medical school in 1941. He completed his degree (Alpha Omega Alpha) in 1945, and after internships in Boston and two years in the army he returned to New York to do an internal medicine residency at the Bronx Veterans Adm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banting Medal
The Banting Medal, officially the Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement, is an annual award conferred by the American Diabetes Association (ADA), which is the highest award of ADA. Inaugurated in 1941, the prize is given in memory of Sir Frederick Banting, a key discoverer of insulin and its therapeutic use. Laureates * 1941: Elliott P. Joslin * 1942: William Muhlberg * 1943: Fred W. Hipwell * 1944: Leonard G. Rowntree * 1946: Bernardo Alberto Houssay, Hans Christian Hagedorn, Robert Daniel Lawrence, Eugene Lindsay Opie, University of Toronto * 1947: George Henry Alexander Clowes * 1948: Rollin Turner Woodyatt * 1949: Herbert M. Evans, Frederick Madison Allen * 1950: Frank George Young * 1951: Cyril Norman Hugh Long * 1952: Robert Russell Bensley * 1953: Shields Warren, Walter R. Campbell, Andrew Almon Fletcher * 1954: Henry Hallett Dale * 1955: Carl Ferdinand Cori, Eugene Floyd DuBois * 1956: William C. Stadie, Louis Harry Newburgh * 1957: DeWitt Stetten Jr., John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel J
Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength"), and derives from two early biblical figures, primary among them Daniel from the Book of Daniel. It is a common given name for males, and is also used as a surname. It is also the basis for various derived given names and surnames. Background The name evolved into over 100 different spellings in countries around the world. Nicknames (Dan, Danny) are common in both English and Hebrew; "Dan" may also be a complete given name rather than a nickname. The name "Daniil" (Даниил) is common in Russia. Feminine versions (Danielle, Danièle, Daniela, Daniella, Dani, Danitza) are prevalent as well. It has been particularly well-used in Ireland. The Dutch names "Daan" and "Daniël" are also variations of Daniel. A related surname developed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce M
The English language name Bruce arrived in Scotland with the Normans, from the place name Brix, Manche in Normandy, France, meaning "the willowlands". Initially promulgated via the descendants of king Robert the Bruce (1274−1329), it has been a Scottish surname since medieval times; it is now a common given name. The variant ''Lebrix'' and ''Le Brix'' are French variations of the surname. Actors * Bruce Bennett (1906–2007), American actor and athlete * Bruce Boxleitner (born 1950), American actor * Bruce Campbell (born 1958), American actor, director, writer, producer and author * Bruce Davison (born 1946), American actor and director * Bruce Dern (born 1936), American actor * Bruce Gray (1936–2017), American-Canadian actor * Bruce Greenwood (born 1956), Canadian actor and musician * Bruce Herbelin-Earle (born 1998), English-French actor and model * Bruce Jones (born 1953), English actor * Bruce Kirby (1925–2021), American actor * Bruce Lee (1940–1973), martial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Eisenbarth
George Stephen Eisenbarth (September 17, 1947 – November 13, 2012) was an American diabetologist who specialized in type 1 diabetes. He helped to establish the autoimmune basis of the disease. Early life and education Eisenbarth was born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York, to a German-American family. His father worked at the American Museum of Natural History and neither of his parents had completed high school. He attended Grover Cleveland High School (Queens), Grover Cleveland High School, graduating in 1965, and received a scholarship to enroll at Columbia University. He completed a BA at Columbia in 1969 before moving to Duke University to complete a PhD in 1974 and an MD in 1975. As an endocrinology research fellow under Harold Lebovitz at Duke, he ran a study that demonstrated the association between human leukocyte antigen and autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 2. Career Eisenbarth developed an interest in type 1 diabetes, and the possibility that it is caused by autoim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Flier
Jeffrey Flier is an American physician, endocrinologist, widely cited scientist, ''Higginson Professor of Medicine and Physiology, and Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor'' at Harvard Medical School. He was the 21st Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University from 2007 to 2016. Early life and career Flier was born in New York City, and grew up in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx. He is the son of Milton R. Flier, a World War II C-47 pilot and businessperson, and Dorothy (Kroll) Flier, who taught junior high school mathematics. He graduated in 1964 from the Bronx High School of Science, and 1968 from the City College of New York. He was in the first entering class of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1968, and graduated in 1972 with the Elster Prize for highest academic standing.An opponent to healthcare for all. After two years of internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai Hospital, he spent four years in the Public Health Service as a clinic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz M
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Franz may refer to: People * Franz (given name) * Franz (surname) Places * Franz (crater), a lunar crater * Franz, Ontario, a railway junction and unorganized town in Canada * Franz Lake, in the state of Washington, United States – see Franz Lake National Wildlife Refuge Businesses * Franz Deuticke, a scientific publishing company based in Vienna, Austria * Franz Family Bakeries, a food processing company in Portland, Oregon * Franz-porcelains, a Taiwanese brand of pottery based in San Francisco Other uses * ''Franz'' (film), a 1971 Belgian film * Franz Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language See also * Frantz (other) * Franzen (other) * Frantzen (other) Frantzen or Frantzén is a surname. It may refer to: * Allen Frantzen (born 1947/48), American medievalist * Björn Frantzén (born 1977), Swedish chef and owner of the Frantzén restaurant * Jean-Pierre Frantzen (1890–1957), Luxembourgian gym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ora Mendelsohn Rosen
Ora Mendelsohn Rosen (October 26, 1935 – May 30, 1990) was an American medical researcher who investigated the influence of hormones, particularly insulin, on the control of cell growth. She was a professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Early life Rosen was born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Isaac Mendelsohn, her father, was a professor of Semitic languages at Columbia University and her mother, Fanny Soier, was a remedial reading teacher; both were Zionists. Her brother was Ezra Mendelsohn, a professor of Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Rosen studied biology at Barnard College, graduating in 1956, the same year that she married the physician Samuel Rosen; they had two sons. She went on to complete a medical degree at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1960. Career After receiving her medical degree, Rosen con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Reaven
Gerald M. "Jerry" Reaven (July 28, 1928 – February 12, 2018) was an American endocrinologist and professor emeritus in medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California, United States. Reaven's work on insulin resistance and diabetes mellitus with John W. Farquhar goes back at least to 1965. A long-term researcher into diabetes, he achieved significant notability with his 1988 Banting Lecture (organized annually by the American Diabetes Association in memory of Frederick Banting). In his lecture, he propounded the theory that central obesity (male-type or apple-shaped obesity), diabetes and hypertension (high blood pressure) have a common cause in insulin resistance and impaired glucose tolerance. Initially titled "syndrome X", the constellation of symptoms is now known as the metabolic syndrome and an object of extensive scientific inquiry, especially given that the combination strongly predisposes for cardiovascular disease. Still, Reaven belie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Unger
Roger H. Unger (March 7, 1924 – August 22, 2020) was an American physician known for his studies of the physiology of pancreatic islets. In particular the elucidation of the roles of insulin and glucagon in the regulation of normal blood glucose homeostasis and in the pathogenesis of diabetes, and the establishment of glucagon as a hormone. He was the Touchstone/West Distinguished Chair in Diabetes Research at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Early life and education Unger was born March 7, 1924, to parents who were a physician/hematologist and a stay-at-home mother respectively. He grew up in New York City, attending the Horace Mann School until the age of 15, then the Taft School for the rest of his secondary education. Unger completed his undergraduate studies at Yale University, then his medical degree at Columbia University. Medical and research career Following medical school, Unger worked at New York's Bellevue Hospital. In 1951, he joined the US Public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Marble
Alexander Marble (February 2, 1902 – September 13, 1992) was an American diabetologist who spent the majority of his career at the Joslin Diabetes Center. Life and career Marble was born in 1902 in Troy, Kansas. He attended the University of Kansas, completing a BA in chemistry in 1922 and an MA in bacteriology and immunology in 1924. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1927. After graduating from Harvard, Marble interned at Johns Hopkins Hospital then returned to Boston to complete a residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was awarded a traveling fellowship in the early 1930s to study in Austria, Germany and England, including at the laboratory of Henry Hallett Dale. His research subjects at this time included pentosuria, glycosuria, xylose metabolism, and vitamin D. Upon his return to the United States in 1932, he was recruited by Elliott P. Joslin to join his diabetes clinic in Boston, where Marble was given his own laboratory and was appointed Director of Rese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
