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Banting Lecture
Bringing Light to the Dark Side of Insulin: A Journey Across the Blood-Brain Barrier
Robert S. Sherwin, MD, has been selected to receive the Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement at the American Diabetes Association's 67th Annual Scientific Sessions. This award for scientific excellence recognizes significant, long-term contributions to the understanding, treatment, or prevention of diabetes. Dr. Sherwin will present the Banting Lecture titled "Bringing Light to the Dark Side of Insulin: A Journey Across the Blood-Brain Barrier" on Sunday, June 24, 2007.
Currently the CNH Long Professor of Medicine and director of the Diabetes Endocrinofogy Research Center at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn., Dr. Sherwin is internationally recognized for engaging in both wide-ranging basic scientific research and in state-of-the-art bedside patient care. His extensive and uniquely diverse body of work demonstrates originality of thought and reflects an ability to translate clinical observation into hypothesisdriven investigation.
Dr. Sherwin's first research project had an enormous impact on diabetes. While serving as a research fellow at NIH in the laboratory of Dr. Reubin Andres, he helped develop and published the first paper employing the eugiycemic hyperinsulinemic clamp, now the most widely accepted method for quantifying insulin sensitivity. Dr. Sherwin's early studies at Yale on the metabolic actions of counterregulatory hormones also had a significant impact. His glucagon studies helped place the relative importance of...