Chris Newgard, PhD, professor of Medicine and Pharmacology and Cancer Biology and director of Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, received the Donald Steiner Award for Outstanding Achievement in Diabetes Research from the University of Chicago at the University's Diabetes Day last Saturday.
Dr. Newgard presented his research in a talk titled "Metabolomics as a tool for defining cardiometabolic disease mechanisms."
After the presentation, Newgard was photographed with his peers, from left to right: Graeme Bell, PhD, Louis Block Professor of Genetics, Kenneth Polonsky, MD, dean of the Pritzker School of Medicine and dean of the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of Chicago, Newgard, and Donald Steiner, MD, A. N. Pritzker Service Professor, University of Chicago, a highly decorated scientist who has made career-long seminal contributions to our understanding of prohormone biosynthesis and processing.