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Elmquist earns top honor from American Diabetes Association
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Joel Elmquist, MD, director of the center for Hypothalamic Research at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, received the American Diabetes Association’s Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award for his considerable contributions to the field of research.
Four previous winners of the prestigious award — the organization’s top honor for an early-career scientist — nominated Elmquist for his identification of critical signaling events in specific neurons in the brain that underlie the coordinated control of food intake, body weight and carbohydrate metabolism.
“His work has contributed in major ways toward our understanding of how the nervous system regulates feeding, body weight and carbohydrate and lipid homeostasis,” Philipp Scherer, PhD, director of the Touchstone Center for Diabetes Research at UT Southwestern, said in a press release. “All of these processes are exceptionally important for our understanding of the causes and for the development of treatments for obesity and type 2 diabetes.”
Elmquist will officially accept the award in June when he delivers the lecture at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) 74th Scientific Sessions in San Francisco, California. It is the second of recent honors for Elmquist, who received the Garnett-Powers & Associates Inc. 2014 Mentor Award from the National Postdoctoral Association in early April.
“I am truly honored to be selected by the ADA for this award,” Elmquist said in the release. “I am eternally grateful to all my previous postdoctoral fellows and students, laboratory members, and my colleagues at UT Southwestern.”