Joel Habener is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Joel Habener
Alma mater
OccupationEndocrinologist Edit this on Wikidata
Awards

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). Habener received credit for the work on hormones when Mosjov was not credited.[1] Habener was awarded the 2020 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize along with Daniel Drucker and Jens Juul Holst.[2] He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.[3] In 2021, he was awarded the Canada Gairdner International Award.[4] In 2023, he received the VinFuture Prize.[5] In 2024, he was awarded the Princess of Asturias Awards for Technical and Scientific Research,[6] the Tang Prize in the category of "Biopharmaceutical Science"[7] and also in 2024 the Lasker Award[8][9] for clinical research.

References

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  1. ^ Molteni, Megan; Chen, Elaine (27 September 2023). "The Ozempic revolution is rooted in the work of Svetlana Mojsov, yet she's been edged out of the story". STAT. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
  2. ^ "Prize Recipients | Warren Alpert Foundation Prize". warrenalpert.org.
  3. ^ "2020 NAS Election". www.nasonline.org.
  4. ^ Canada Gairdner International Award 2021
  5. ^ Nhu, Quynh (21 December 2023). "Battery researchers win $3M Vietnamese awards". VnExpress.
  6. ^ Princess of Asturias Awards 2024
  7. ^ Tang Prize 2024
  8. ^ Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Research
  9. ^ 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.