Department off Medicine / en Daniel Drucker receives Canada Gairdner International Award /celebrates/daniel-drucker-receives-canada-gairdner-international-award <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Daniel Drucker receives Canada Gairdner International Award</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-04-07T09:54:32-04:00" title="Wednesday, April 7, 2021 - 09:54" class="datetime">Wed, 04/07/2021 - 09:54</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/gairdner-international-award" hreflang="en">Gairdner International Award</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/temerty-faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Temerty Faculty of Medicine</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-medicine-0" hreflang="en">Department off Medicine</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/insulin-100" hreflang="en">Insulin 100</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/UofT86637_2020-11-01-Daniel%20Drucker%20%282%29.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="Daniel Drucker"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">(Photo by Johnny Guatto)</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The University of Toronto’s <b>Daniel Drucker</b>&nbsp;has been jointly awarded a 2021&nbsp;<a href="https://gairdner.org/">Canada Gairdner International Award</a>&nbsp;for research that has helped revolutionize treatments for type 2 diabetes, obesity and intestinal disorders.</p> <p>Drucker, a professor in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.deptmedicine.utoronto.ca/">department of medicine</a>&nbsp;at the&nbsp;<a href="https://medicine.utoronto.ca/">Temerty Faculty of Medicine</a>&nbsp;and a senior scientist at the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lunenfeld.ca/">Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute</a>&nbsp;at Sinai Health, received the honour with Joel Habener of Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital, and Jens Juul Holst of the University of Copenhagen.</p> <p>Working both independently and collaboratively over more than four decades, Holst, Habener and Drucker discovered the peptides known as GLP-1 and GLP-2, detailed their molecular and physiological effects in cells and animals and translated those findings in human studies that have led to several new classes of drugs.</p> <p>The award comes&nbsp;as 山ǿ&nbsp;<a href="https://insulin100.utoronto.ca/">celebrates the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin</a>, a finding that paved the way for a century of ground-breaking research at the university and its partner hospitals.</p> <p>“I am extremely excited and honoured that the Gairdner Foundation has recognized our collective work on the glucagon-like peptides, and its translational importance for the treatment of metabolic disorders," said Drucker. “I am also very grateful for the dozens of contributions made by so many talented trainees that I have been privileged to work with at the University of Toronto.”</p> <p>The Gairdner Foundation was established in 1957 to recognize fundamental research that impacts human health, bestowing 395 awards to scientists from 35 countries.</p> <h3><a href="/news/u-t-scientist-receives-gairdner-international-award-metabolism-research">Read the 山ǿ News story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div 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