Joel Habener is a Professor of Medicine at

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. Habener worked with Svetlana Mojsov on elucidating the role of

incretin Incretins are a group of metabolic hormones that stimulate a decrease in blood glucose levels. Incretins are released after eating and augment the secretion of insulin released from pancreatic beta cells of the islets of Langerhans by a blood-gl ...

hormones such as Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and Glucagon-like peptide-2 (GLP-2). Habener received credit for the work on hormones when Mosjov was not credited. Habener was awarded the 2020

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along with Daniel Drucker and Jens Juul Holst. He was elected to the

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in 2020. In 2021 he was awarded the

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.Canada Gairdner International Award 2021
/ref> In 2023, he received the

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