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Klaus Kaestner: Roy O. Greep Award for Outstanding Research

Klaus H. Kaestner, the Thomas and Evelyn Suor Butterworth Professor of Genetics and associate director of the Diabetes Research Center and the Center for Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Diseases in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, will receive the 2017 Roy O. Greep Award for Outstanding Research from the Washington-based Endocrine Society.

Dr. Kaestner is one of 14 researchers and clinicians being recognized for major achievements in the field of endocrinology, which focuses on hormones and their importance in the body.

In its announcement, the Endocrine Society said that Dr. Kaestner “discovered how liver development is initiated” and made major contributions to understanding liver metabolism and differences in liver cancer between men and women. He is also cited for pioneering studies of the pancreas, whose functions include secreting insulin. The society also recognized Dr. Kaestner’s “groundbreaking discoveries” related to the islet cells in the pancreas (which regulate blood sugar), achievements which have “opened the door to novel treatments for diabetes.”

Dr. Kaestner is a founding member of the National Institutes of Health-funded Human Islet Research Network and has served on many review panels for the National Institute for Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. He has co-authored more than 290 publications and serves on the editorial boards of several professional journals.

The Endocrine Society will present the awards at ENDO 2017, its 99th Annual Meeting & Expo in Orlando, Florida, in April 2017.

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