Professor Jørn Nerup, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Jørn Nerup is Professor of Immuno-endocrinology at the University of Copenhagen and Director of the WHO Collaborating Center, Steno Diabetes Center and Hagedorn Research Laboratory in Denmark. Professor Nerup established the Steno Diabetes Education Center in 1991, which runs six courses in the field of diabetes per year attended by delegates from around the globe. With a prolific publication history, Professor Nerup has published widely over the years, focusing particularly on the epidemiology and genetics of type 1 diabetes.

 

 

Professor Ralph Anthony DeFronzo, University of Texas, San Antonio, USA

Ralph A. DeFronzo, MD, is a Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Diabetes Division at the University of Texas Health Science Center and the Audie L. Murphy Memorial VA Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, USA. He also has the role of Deputy Director of the Texas Diabetes Institute. Dr DeFronzo's major interests focus on the pathogenesis and treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus, the central role of insulin resistance in the metabolic-cardiovascular cluster of disorders known collectively as the insulin resistance syndrome, and the etiology and treatment of diabetic nephropathy. Using the euglycemic insulin clamp technique in combination with radioisotope turnover methodology, limb catheterization, indirect calorimetry, and muscle biopsy, he has helped to define the biochemical and molecular disturbances responsible for insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes mellitus.