2020
Professor Dr. Franz Matschinsky
Prize lecture: Glucokinase: Glucose Sensor, Disease Gene and Drug Receptor
In Memorandum of Dr. Franz Matschinsky 1931-2022
2019
Professor Mitchell Lazar, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Prize lecture: Nuclear Receptors, Circadian Rhythms, and Metabolism.
2018
Professor Rudolf Zechner, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria
Prize lecture: FAT FISSION - The breakdown of cellular lipid stores in health and disease.
2017
Professor Daniel Drucker, Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto Canada
Prize Lecture: Unravelling novel actions of gut peptides-biological mechanisms and therapeutic implications
2016
Professor Michael S. Brown and Professor Joseph L. Goldstein, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA
Prize Lecture: Scap: Cholesterol Sensor and Lipid Regulator
2015
Professor Andrew Hattersley, University of Exeter Medical School, Devon, UK
Prize Lecture: From base change to better care in diabetes
2014
Professor Roger H. Unger, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Prize Lecture: A New Biology for Diabetes (Type 1 and 2)
2013
Professor Se-Jin Lee, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Prize Lecture: Myostatin: A Molecular Rheostat for Muscle Mass
2012
Professor David John Mangelsdorf, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
Prize Lecture: Nuclear Receptor Regulation of Nutrient Metabolism: From Worms to Humans.
2011
Professor Jeffrey Scott Flier, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Prize Lecture: Hormone resistance in diabetes and obesity: insulin, leptin and FGF21.
2009
Professor Lewis C. Cantley, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Prize Lecture: PI 3-Kinase and glucose metabolism
2008
Professor Grahame Hardie, FRSE FMedSci, University of Dundee, UK
Prize lecture: AMPK: a key sensor of cellular energy status and a potential drug target in obesity, diabetes and cancer.
2007
Dr. Wylie Vale, Helen McLoraine chair professor of molecular neurobiology at the Salk Institute in the USA
Prize lecture: The CRF/urocortin network of neuropeptides and receptors: bridging stress and metabolism
2006
Professor Sir Philip Cohen, MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, University of Dundee, UK
Prize lecture: From insulin signalling to the regulation of cytokine production by pathogens
2005
Professor Stephen O´Rahilly, Cambridge University, UK
Prize lecture: Insights into human metabolism from the study of extreme phenotypes
2003
Professor Bruce Spiegelman, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
Prize lecture: Transcriptional Control of Energy Metabolism
2001
Professor C Ronald Kahn, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, USA
Prize lecture: Insulin Action in "Insulin Insensitive" Tissues - Role in Diabetes
2000
Professor Jeffrey Friedman, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, the Rockefeller University, New York, USA
Prize lecture: Leptin, Obesity and the Hormonal Control of Body Weight
Professor Rolf Luft, 1914-2007
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