Joel Habener

Joel Habener is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School who has done fundamental studies on elucidating the role of incretin hormones such as Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and Glucagon-like peptide-2 (GLP-2). For his discoveries, he was awarded the 2020 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize along with Daniel Drucker and Jens Juul Holst.[1] He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.[2]

References
  1. "Prize Recipients | Warren Alpert Foundation Prize". warrenalpert.org.
  2. "2020 NAS Election". www.nasonline.org.


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