Albert Renold
Albert Ernst Renold (born July 10, 1923 , † March 21, 1988 ) was a Swiss physician who dealt with diabetes .
Renold received his doctorate in medicine (MD) in Switzerland in 1948 and then went into diabetes research at Harvard Medical School in Boston . He was a student of Elliott Proctor Joslin there . Renold became director of the Baker Clinic Research Laboratory (later Elliott P. Joslin Research Laboratory). In 1963 he became a professor at the University of Geneva , where he founded the Institut de Biochemie Clinique.
In 1950 he demonstrated the influence of insulin on the formation of adipose tissue .
In 1967 he received the Otto Naegeli Prize . The American Diabetes Association awarded him their highest honor in 1974 with the Banting Medal . In 1986 he received the König Faisal Prize for Medicine.
In 1965 he was a co-founder and first secretary of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) and its president from 1974 to 1977. The EASD named a scholarship (Albert Renold Fellowship) and a prize (Albert Renold Prize Lecture) after Renold, as well as a prize from the American Diabetes Association named after him.
literature
- Obituary by Lelio Orci , Diabetologia , Volume 31, 1988, p. 335
Individual evidence
- ↑ Renolds, Fawcett, Marble: Action of Insulin on deposition of glycogen and storage of fat in adipose tissue. In: Endocrinology. Volume 46, 1950, pp. 55-66
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Renold, Albert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Renold, Albert E .; Renold, Albert Ernst (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1923 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 1988 |