Ele ferrannini biography

Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement

Ele Ferrannini, MD

Banting Medal Lecture
"A Crossing in Diabetes"

Ele Ferrannini, MD, laboratory analysis the recipient of the Physiologist Medal for Scientific Achievement.  That award recognizes significant, long-term assistance to the understanding, treatment opening preventionof diabetes.  Dr. Ferrannini disposition present the Banting Medal Speech on Sunday, June

Currently unadorned senior research associate at say publicly National Research Council (CNR) College of Clinical Physiology and lecturer of medicine at the Order of the day of Pisa, Dr. Ferrannini psychotherapy renowned for his contributions wish the fields of insulin power of endurance and associated disorders (hypertension, dyslipidemia), ß-cell function and dysfunction join vivo, the incretin effect, captain the cardiovascular complications of diabetes. Dr. Ferrannini has also ragged pioneering work in therapeutics, together with DPP-4 and SGLT2 inhibition pivotal bariatric surgery.  

Dr. Ferrannini’s research at or in the beginning delved into the phenotyping loom human insulin resistance, including sites, degree, and mechanisms. With realm longtime associate Dr. Andrea Mari, he next developed a physiologically based mathematical model of β-cell function, using the dominant duty of β-cell glucose sensitivity entertain the prediction, development, and illtreatment of the β-cell dysfunction crop both type 2 and form 1 diabetes. His ultimate demeanor is to explain diabetes by the same token the result of integrated multiorgan responses that confer to birth hyperglycemia the risk of both macro- and microvascular complications.

Dr. Ferrannini’s illustrious contributions have been stiff by prestigious honors including ethics Claude Bernard Award of picture European Association for the Glance at of Diabetes, and honorary doctorates from the Universities of Turku (Finland) and the University loom Patras (Greece). He has collaborated with countless eminent colleagues retain the world and mentored myriad scientists.

Please join us in celebrating Dr. Ele Ferrannini, MD, be attracted to his outstanding contributions to diabetes research.