The Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation and the Board of Trustees awarded the 2019 Heinrich Wieland Prize to

 

Professor Dr Jens C. Brüning

Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, Cologne, Germany

 

for his pioneering research on how the brain regulates energy metabolism.

 

Speakers at the award symposium were:

  • Professor Dr Jens C. Brüning
    Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, Cologne, Germany
    "CNS-dependent regulation of energy and glucose homeostasis"

  • Professor Sabrina Diano, PhD
    Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
    "Central intracellular mechanisms in metabolism regulation"

  • Professor Jeffrey M. Friedman, MD, PhD
    The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
    "Leptin and the neural circuit regulating body weight"

  • Professor Dr Matthias H. Tschöp
    Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany
    "Unimolecular combination therapeutics for the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes" and
    "Laudation"

 

You will find the programme of the award symposium here.

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