Upcoming Event

May 15, 2010 - 5th Annual Chicago Diabetes Day

Past Event

May 16, 2009 – 4th Annual Chicago Diabetes Day

Roger D. Cone, Ph.D.

The basic science of obesity...and why obesity prevention is key to reversing the diabetes epidemic

Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University

Jon S. Odorico, M.D.

Pancreas transplantation - a cure for type 1 diabetes but for whom?

Division of Transplantation, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Alexander V. Chervonsky, M.D., Ph.D.

Gut microbes and type 1 diabetes - environment matters

Department of Pathology, The University of Chicago

Monica E. Peek, M.D., M.P.H.

Decision making in African-Americans with diabetes

Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago

Donald F. Steiner Awardees: 

2009

Roger D. Cone, Ph.D.

Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University

     

2008

George Eisenbarth, MD, Ph.D.

Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado

2007

Daniel J. Drucker, M.D.

Banting and Best Diabetes Centre, University of Toronto

2006

Andrew Hattersley, M.D.

Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter & Plymouth

The Donald F. Steiner Award for Outstanding Achievement in Diabetes Research was established in annually to honor an investigator carrying out research in the field of diabetes. It includes an engraved crystal paperweight and $5,000. The award is named for Donald F. Steiner, M.D., the A.N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor, The University of Chicago, a pioneering diabetes investigator and discoverer of proinsulin. This discovery provided new insight into the production of insulin as well as other hormones and neuropeptides and also established a route for the production of human insulin for treating patients with diabetes. This is an international award and the awardee is selected by a committee chaired by Dr. Louis H. Philipson and including Professor Steiner.