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. 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.

 

The 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