Joel Habener | |
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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]
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]
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]