Endocrine Abstracts

The prestigious Geoffrey Harris Prize is awarded to an established researcher in the field of neuroendocrinology and is the first of its kind in Europe. This years recipient is Professor Matthias Tschöp who will receive his prize and deliver his lecture as part of the ECE 2017 Opening Ceremony on Saturday 20 May 2017. Further information on the prize can be found at http://www.ese-hormones.org/prizes/.

Professor Matthias H. Tschöp received his M.D. from Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich, where he also trained as a physician in internal medicine. In 1998 he accepted an invitation for a postdoctoral fellowship at the Eli Lilly Research Laboratories in Indianapolis, USA before returning to Europe in 2002 to establish his independent research laboratory at the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) Potsdam. He later returned to the United States where he joined the University of Cincinnati to ultimately serve as the Director of the Diabetes and Obesity Center of Excellence and Arthur Russell Morgan Endowed Chair of Medicine. In 2011 Prof. Tschöp accepted the position as Scientific Director of the Helmholtz Diabetes Center at Helmholtz Center München and was named Chair of the Division of Metabolic Diseases at Technische Universität München. Prof. Tschöp is the first German physician to receive the prestigious Alexander-von-Humboldt Professorship (2012). He was elected into the German National Academy of Science (Leopoldina) in 2013 and one year later was named adjunct Professor at Yale University, USA. He started the peer-reviewed open access journal Molecular Metabolism, which he leads as the Editor-in-Chief (first impact factor 2016: 5.4). In 2016 Matthias Tschöp received an honorary doctorate of the University of Leipzig and was named Director for Biomedicine of the Helmholtz Pioneer Campus in Munich, which he co-founded.