2018
Gökhan Hotamışlıgil
Prize recipient seeks solutions to the greatest threats to health
Professor Gökhan Hotamışlıgil receives the 2018 EASD–Novo Nordisk Foundation Diabetes Prize for Excellence accompanied by DKK 6 million (€806,000) for his outstanding research efforts that have led to groundbreaking new knowledge about the relationship between obesity and diabetes and potential paths for treatment.
About Gökhan Hotamışlıgil
Gökhan Hotamışlıgil
Professor
- 2017: Hans L. Falk Award and Memorial Lecture, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA
- 2015: Roy O. Greep Award for Outstanding Research, Endocrine Society
- 2014: Founding Director, Sabri Ülker Center for Metabolic Research
- 2014: Danone Institute International Prize for Nutrition
- 2013: Koç Foundation Science Award
- 2013: Naomi Berrie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Diabetes Research
- 2010: Wertheimer Award, International Association for the Study of Obesity
- 2010: Harvard School of Public Health Mentoring Award
- 2009: Elected Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science
- 2007: Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment Award of the American Diabetes Association and Lilly Lecture
- 2004: TUBITAK Science Award of the Scientific-Technological Council of Turkey
- 2003: James S. Simmons Endowed Professor and Founding Chair, Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- 1997: Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences
- 1994: PhD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- 1986: MD in Medicine, Ankara University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey
- Gökhan Hotamışlıgil’s 200 publications have received more than 50,000 citations.