Joel Habener

Joel Habener
Awards	Warren Alpert Foundation Prize (2020) Canada Gairdner International Award (2021) VinFuture Prize (2023) Princess of Asturias Awards (2024) Tang Prize (2024) Lasker Award (2024) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2024)
Scientific career
Institutions	Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital

Joel Habener is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital. ^[1]

Early life and education

Habener graduated with a BS degree Cum Laude from the University of Redlands in 1960. He received his MD in 1965 from the University of California School of Medicine. ^[2]

Career

Habener worked with Svetlana Mojsov on elucidating the role of incretin hormones such as glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and glucagon-like peptide-2 (GLP-2). ^[3]

Habener was awarded the 2020 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize along with Daniel Drucker and Jens Juul Holst. ^[4] He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020. ^[5] In 2021, he was awarded the Canada Gairdner International Award. ^[6] In 2023, he received the VinFuture Prize. ^[7] In 2024, he was awarded the Princess of Asturias Awards for Technical and Scientific Research, ^[8] the Tang Prize in the category of "Biopharmaceutical Science", ^[9] the Lasker Award for clinical research ^{[10] [11]} and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category "Biology and Biomedicine". ^[12]

References

1. "Joel Habener, M.D. | Mass General Research Institute". Find a Researcher - Massachusetts General Hospital. Retrieved 2025-01-09.
2. "Joel Habener, MD | Scholars | Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals". www.harringtondiscovery.org. Retrieved 2025-01-23.
3. Ardehali, Hossein (2024-09-26). "Joel Habener, Svetlana Mojsov, and Lotte Bjerre Knudsen awarded Lasker prize for pioneering work on GLP-1". The Journal of Clinical Investigation. 134 (19). doi:10.1172/JCI186225. ISSN   0021-9738.
4. "Prize Recipients | Warren Alpert Foundation Prize". warrenalpert.org.
5. "2020 NAS Election". www.nasonline.org.
6. Canada Gairdner International Award 2021
7. Nhu, Quynh (21 December 2023). "Battery researchers win $3M Vietnamese awards". VnExpress .
8. Princess of Asturias Awards 2024
9. Tang Prize 2024
10. Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Research
11. Prashant Nair (19 September 2024). "QnAs with Svetlana Mojsov, Joel Habener, and Lotte Bjerre Knudsen: Winners of the 2024 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 121 (39). doi:10.1073/PNAS.2416868121. ISSN   0027-8424. Wikidata   Q130375905.
12. BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2024