Jens Juul Holst
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Jens Juul Holst (born 1 August 1945) is a Danish physician and physiologist. He is known for discovering and describing the hormone glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), a hormone in the gut that plays an important role in the onset and development of Type 2 diabetes.
In 2020, he was awarded the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize along Daniel J. Drucker and Joel F. Habener.
In 2021, he was awarded the Canada Gairdner International Award along Daniel J. Drucker, Joel F. Habener, and Mary-Claire King. He was also awarded the Banting Medal by the American Diabetes Association (ADA).
In 2024, he was awarded the Princess of Asturias Awards for Technical and Scientific Research along Daniel J. Drucker, Jeffrey M. Friedman, Joel F. Habener, and Svetlana Mojsov. and also in 2024 he received the Tang Prize in the category of "Biopharmaceutical Science".
References
- ^ Singh G, Krauthamer M, Bjalme-Evans M (January 2022). "Wegovy (semaglutide): a new weight loss drug for chronic weight management". Journal of Investigative Medicine. 70 (1): 5–13. doi:10.1136/jim-2021-001952. PMC 8717485. PMID 34706925.
- ^ Prize Recipients | Warren Alpert Foundation Prize
- ^ "2021 Canada Gairdner Awards Recognize World-Renowned Scientists For Transformative Contributions To Research Impacting Human Health". 7 April 2021. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "Exceptional Leaders in Diabetes Research, Prevention and Treatment to be Recognized at ADA's 81st Scientific Sessions" (PDF; 269 kB). diabetes.org. American Diabetes Association. 2021-03-08.
- ^ "Daniel J. Drucker, Jeffrey M. Friedman, Joel F. Habener, Jens Juul Holst, and Svetlana Mojsov, Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research 2024". Princess of Asturias Foundation. 5 June 2024.
- ^ Tang Prize 2024
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- 1981: Alberto Sols
- 1982: Manuel Ballester
- 1983: Luis Antonio Santaló Sors
- 1984: Antonio Garcia-Bellido
- 1985: David Vázquez Martínez and Emilio Rosenblueth
- 1986: Antonio González González
- 1987: Jacinto Convit and Pablo Rudomín
- 1988: Manuel Cardona and Marcos Moshinsky
- 1989: Guido Münch
- 1990: Santiago Grisolía and Salvador Moncada
- 1991: Francisco Bolívar Zapata
- 1992: Federico García Moliner
- 1993: Amable Liñán
- 1994: Manuel Patarroyo
- 1995: Manuel Losada Villasante and Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad of Costa Rica
- 1996: Valentín Fuster
- 1997: Atapuerca research team
- 1998: Emilio Méndez Pérez and Pedro Miguel Echenique Landiríbar
- 1999: Ricardo Miledi and Enrique Moreno González
- 2000: Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier
- 2001: Craig Venter, John Sulston, Francis Collins, Hamilton Smith, and Jean Weissenbach
- 2002: Lawrence Roberts, Robert E. Kahn, Vinton Cerf, and Tim Berners-Lee
- 2003: Jane Goodall
- 2004: Judah Folkman, Tony Hunter, Joan Massagué, Bert Vogelstein, and Robert Weinberg
- 2005: Antonio Damasio
- 2006: Juan Ignacio Cirac
- 2007: Peter Lawrence and Ginés Morata
- 2008: Sumio Iijima, Shuji Nakamura, Robert Langer, George M. Whitesides, and Tobin Marks
- 2009: Martin Cooper and Raymond Tomlinson
- 2010: David Julius, Baruch Minke, and Linda Watkins
- 2011: Joseph Altman, Arturo Álvarez-Buylla, and Giacomo Rizzolatti
- 2012: Gregory Winter and Richard A. Lerner
- 2013: Peter Higgs, François Englert, and European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN
- 2014: Avelino Corma Canós, Mark E. Davis, and Galen D. Stucky
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- 2015: Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna
- 2016: Hugh Herr
- 2017: Rainer Weiss, Kip S. Thorne, Barry C. Barish, and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration
- 2018: Svante Pääbo
- 2019: Joanne Chory and Sandra Myrna Díaz
- 2020: Yves Meyer, Ingrid Daubechies, Terence Tao, and Emmanuel Candès
- 2021: Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman, Philip Felgner, Uğur Şahin, Özlem Türeci, Derrick Rossi, and Sarah Gilbert
- 2022: Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, and Demis Hassabis
- 2023: Jeffrey I. Gordon, Everett Peter Greenberg, and Bonnie Bassler
- 2024: Daniel J. Drucker, Jeffrey M. Friedman, Joel F. Habener, Jens Juul Holst, and Svetlana Mojsov
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