Daniel J. Drucker

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Daniel J. Drucker (2015)

Daniel Joshua Drucker (born June 23, 1956 in Montreal , Québec ) is a Canadian diabetologist at the University of Toronto and the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of the Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. He is best known for his work on the physiology of the glucagon-like peptide .

Drucker earned an MD from the University of Toronto in 1980 with a medical degree. He completed his residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital , the University of Toronto and Massachusetts General Hospital . Since 1987 he has held a professorship for internal medicine at the University of Toronto.

Daniel J. Drucker conducts translational research into the hormonal activity of the intestine, which has led to the development of new antidiabetic drugs , including DPP4 inhibitors and GLP-1 agonists , as well as a drug against symptoms of short bowel syndrome , the analogue of GLP-2 , teduglutide . Drucker was able to clone the GLP-2 receptor and identify various factors that affect its signal transduction , including microbial factors.

Google Scholar calculates an h-index of 127 for Daniel J. Drucker (as of June 2020). The Scopus database has an h-index of 108.

Drucker received the Banting Medal from the American Diabetes Association in 2014, the Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine from the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2017 and the Rolf Luft Award from the Karolinska Institutet , and the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize in 2020 . In 2014 he became Officer of the Order of Canada and in 2015 a member of the Royal Society .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Drucker, Prof. Daniel Joshua . In: Who's Who . Oxford University Press, December 1, 2015, doi : 10.1093 / ww / 9780199540884.013.u284134 .
  2. ^ Daniel J. Drucker. In: scholar.google.de. Google Scholar , accessed June 21, 2020 .
  3. ^ Printer, Daniel. In: scopus.com. Scopus , accessed June 21, 2020 .
  4. ^ Daniel J. Drucker, MD, Receives American Diabetes Association's Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement Award. In: marketwired.com. April 23, 2014, accessed March 25, 2019 .
  5. ↑ The 2017 Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine: Daniel J. Drucker, MD, Joel F. habener, MD, and Jens J. Holst, MD, DMSc. In: the-asci.org. American Society for Clinical Investigation , March 14, 2017, accessed March 25, 2019 (American English).
  6. ↑ Lilian Pagrot: Rolf Luft Award 2017. In: ki.se. Karolinska Institutet , April 11, 2018, accessed March 25, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Dr. Daniel J. Drucker, OC In: approx. Governor General of Canada , accessed March 25, 2019 .
  8. ^ Daniel Drucker. In: royalsociety.org. Royal Society , accessed March 25, 2019 (UK English).
personal data
SURNAME Drucker, Daniel J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Printer, Daniel Joshua
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian diabetologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Quebec