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fall 2015 diabetespro Quarterly A m e r i c A n D i A b e t es A s s o c i At i o n n e w s fo r P r o f es s i o n A l m e m b e r s 2015 research excellence awards announced gail patrick innovation award The Gail Patrick Innovation Award is granted annually to the highest scoring Innovation Award applicant. Awardees receive $50,000 per year for 2 years to support the pursuit of an innovative idea that advances the American Diabetes Association's efforts to prevent, treat, and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by the disease. in this issue request for editor-in-Chief applications 3 John pipe Voices for Change awards 6 Call for research symposium topics 8 scientific sessions, spotlight on new orleans 10 Gail Patrick was one of the first nonphysicians elected to the Association's Board of Directors. A person with type 1 diabetes, she led an active life. She was a movie star and producer of the Wang Wang, MD, PhD "Perry Mason" television series. In 1973, she became the first Chair of the Association's board and successfully led the organization through its initial year as a voluntary health agency. Wang Wang, MD, PhD, from the University of Washington in Seattle, is the 2015 recipient of the Gail Patrick Innovation Award. His project focuses on innovative imaging studies to examine the mechanism by which hydrogen peroxide stimulates insulin secretion and whether this mechanism is disrupted in type 2 diabetes, when β-cells fail to compensate for insulin resistance. The results may define new therapeutic targets and treatments to ameliorate type 2 diabetes symptoms and complications. thomas r. lee award The Association established the Thomas R. Lee Career Development Award, granted annually, to recognize the highest-scoring Career Development Award applicant. Awardees receive $172,500 per year for 5 years to advance their research careers as young, independent diabetes investigators. Shaodong Guo, PhD Thomas R. Lee was born in 1909 to a family of hardworking farmers in Norfolk, Va. He was a skilled business man and property developer, who demonstrated tremendous kindness and generously supported the causes about which he was most passionate. Inspired by his own battle with diabetes, he donated a charitable portion of his estate to the Association. The 2015 recipient of the Thomas R. Lee Award is Shaodong Guo, PhD, from Texas A&M University in College Station. In his project, Dr. Guo is investigating how insulin resistance leads to liver fibrosis and liver failure. The project is designed to test whether the insulin-suppressed transcription factor FoxO1 is one of the mediators controlling liver fibrosis and whether it could serve as a new target for drug development to treat type 2 diabetes-associated liver dysfunction. professional.diabetes.org http://professional.diabetes.org

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