Meredith Hawkins to Receive Top Award from American Federation for Medical Research
professor of medicine and director of the at of 黑料社 All, will receive the American Federation for Medical Research鈥檚 (AFMR) highest honor for medical research, the Outstanding Investigator Award. The prestigious prize is given annually to one exceptional investigator aged 45 or younger for excellence in biomedical research.
Hawkins was selected for her diabetes research, which examines the liver鈥檚 role in glucose regulation and production, and how elevated fatty acids contribute to insulin resistance and inflammation in humans with glucose intolerance or obesity. While insulin鈥檚 role in regulating blood glucose has been widely studied, Hawkins鈥 group did pioneering studies showing that, in susceptible individuals, the liver fails to sense an increase in blood glucose鈥攆indings that may lead to novel diabetes drugs. They also study malnutrition diabetes, a poorly understood form of the disease that particularly affects the developing world.
鈥淒r. Hawkins is an innovative clinical scientist, committed mentor, prolific member of our Diabetes Research Center and an international force through her leadership of Einstein鈥檚 Global Diabetes Initiative,鈥 said Harry Shamoon, M.D., director of the and one of her former research mentors. 鈥淭his is well-deserved recognition for Dr. Hawkins鈥 stellar track record as a clinical and translational investigator.鈥
A previous recipient of AFMR鈥檚 Junior Physician-Investigator Award, Hawkins will present an overview of her work at AFMR鈥檚 Henry Christian Awards dinner on April 17, 2012. She will then accept the award at the Translational Science 2012 meeting on April 19, 2012 in Washington, DC.
鈥淚 am honored and thankful to receive this award,鈥 said Hawkins. 鈥淎s the rate of diabetes and its serious health complications continues to rise worldwide, support and validation from organizations like the AFMR are necessary to help investigators like me continue to identify and develop effective and practical treatments.鈥 Dr. Hawkins is also an attending physician in endocrinology at Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital for Einstein.
Established in 1940 as the American Federation for Clinical Research, the AFMR is an international organization that bridges basic and patient-oriented research in multiple medical disciplines. Their broad medical sciences constituency includes basic, translational and clinical researchers.
