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Dr. Shoelson is an internationally recognized leader in diabetes research. He is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the Helen and Morton Adler Chair, and Associate Director of Research at the Joslin Diabetes Center. He completed Ph.D. (organic chemistry) and M.D. degrees at the University of Chicago before moving to Boston for internship and residency training in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. He has been on the faculties at the Joslin and Harvard Medical School since 1988. He has received numerous awards and honors, including a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Scholar Award in Experimental Therapeutics, the Excellence in Diabetes Research Award of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, a MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health, the Caledonian Prize of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Donald F. Steiner Award for Outstanding Achievement in Diabetes Research. He is best known for pioneering new approaches that link pathophysiology in type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease to potential new treatments and avenues for prevention.