The Endocrine Society today announced it has chosen 12 leading endocrinologists as winners of its prestigious 2026 Laureate Awards, the top honors in the field, including Professor Farooqi.
Endocrinologists are scientists and medical doctors who specialize in unraveling the mysteries of hormone disorders to care for patients and treat diseases. These professionals have achieved breakthroughs in scientific discoveries and clinical care benefiting people with hundreds of conditions, including diabetes, thyroid disorders, obesity, hormone-related cancers, growth problems, osteoporosis and infertility.
Established in 1944, the Society’s Laureate Awards recognize the highest achievements in the endocrinology field, including groundbreaking research and innovations in clinical care. The Endocrine Society will present the awards to the winners at ENDO 2026, the Society’s annual meeting, being held June 13-16, in Chicago, Ill.
The Endocrine Society’s 2026 Laureate Award winners include:
Ismaa Sadaf Farooqi, M.D., Ph.D. – Gerald D. Aurbach Award for Outstanding Translational Research. This annual award recognizes outstanding contributions to research that accelerates the transition of scientific discoveries into clinical applications. Farooqi is a Clinician Scientist at the Institute of Metabolic Science at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, U.K., who is being honored for her discoveries of fundamental mechanisms that control human energy homeostasis. With colleagues, she discovered the first genes whose disruption causes severe obesity. In pioneering clinical studies, she established that the principal driver of human obesity is a failure of the central control of appetite and that the leptin-melanocortin pathway regulates food intake, macronutrient preference, food reward and body weight. Her research has changed the investigation, management and treatment of children and adults with severe obesity.
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