University of Toronto\u0027s Daniel Drucker won the award for his research into intestinal hormones and their use in treating diabetes.
The University of Toronto’s Daniel Drucker received this year’s Wolf Prize in Medicine “for his research into intestinal hormones and their use in treating diabetes and other metabolic diseases,” the Wolf Foundation said.Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
The other recipients of this year’s awards include Ingrid Daubechies of Duke University in mathematics; Chuan He of the University of Chicago, Hiroaki Suga of the University of Tokyo, and Jeffery W. Kelly of the Scripps Research Institute in chemistry; Martinus van Genuchten of Brazil’s Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in agriculture; and Fujiko Nakaya of Japan and Richard Long of the United Kingdom in art.
The awards were announced Tuesday in Jerusalem at a ceremony hosted by Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog. “Looking at the work of this year’s laureates, what is so striking to me is not only the faculties of human intellect they reflect, but the determination they express to alleviate human suffering and improve life on Earth,” he said.Past recipients of the prize include astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, artist Marc Chagall, conductor Zubin Mehta and musician Stevie Wonder.
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