Belgian Endocrine Society Lecture Award 2025

2025

Call to submit candidatures – deadline 31-12-2024

2024

Jan Gunst (KU Leuven)
Hyperglycemia and macronutrients: synergistically contributing to adverse outcome of critical illness?

2023

Philippe Lysy (UCL)
The prismatic forms of diabetes in pediatrics: natural evolution, strategies for β-cell replacement, and tolerance to physical activity.

2022

Bruno Lapauw (UGhent)
Determinants and consequences of sex steroid exposure in men.

2021

Katrien Benhalima (KU Leuven) –
Lessons from the Belgian Diabetes in Pregnancy study.

2020

Pieter Gillard (KU Leuven) –
Advanced therapies that improve glucose control and quality of life of people with type 1 diabetes.

 

2019

Liliya Rostomyan (ULIEGE) – Pituitary gigantism: clinical characteristics and new insights into the genetics of GH-secreting pituitary adenomas.

BES 2019 lecture awardee Liliya ROSTOMYAN

2018

Iulia Potorac (ULIEGE) –
Mutations of the luteinizing hormone and its receptor – from phenotype to molecular anomalies.

 2017

Patrice Cani (UCL) –
Gut microbiota, clinical implications in obesity and related metabolic disorders.

2016

Daniel A. Cunha (ULB) – Saving private … beta-cells.

2015

Nico De Leu (VUB) -VEGF and endothelial cells for beta cell protection, (re)generation and transplantation

2014

Anne Simonne Parent (ULg) – Early shaping and disorganization of the endocrine brain by environment.”

2012

Ils Vanhorebeek (KUL) – Multiple organ failure during critical illness: mitochondrial dysfunction and impaired autophagy as key targets for pharmacological intervention.

2011

Prof. Karolien De Bosscher (UGent) – Molecular mechanisms modulating the glucocorticoid receptor”

2010

Myriam Cnop (ULB) – Stress in the ER (endoplasmic reticulum) and the development of diabetes mellitus.

2009

Guy T’Sjoen (UGent) – Presenting a state of the art lecture on endocrine care in treatment of transsexualism.

2008

Adrain F. Daly (ULg) – The clinical, pathological, and genetic features of familial isolated pituitary adenomas. Eur J Endocrinol. 157:371-82, 2007

2007

Kris Poppe, (VUB) – Thyroid autoimmunity and female infertility.Verh K Acad Geneeskd Belg. 2006;68:357-77.

2006

K. Spiegel (ULB) – The endocrine and metabolic consequences of sleep lossJ Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2004 Nov;89(11):5762-71.

2005

C. Maenhaut (ULB) – Profiles in gene expression in thyroid tumors and in model systems.Bull Mem Acad R Med Belg. 159 :533-9; discussion 539-40, 2004.

2004

J.C. Jonas (UCL) – Phenotypical alterations of pancreatic beta-cells exposed to supraphysiological glucose concentrations. Diabetologia. 46 :1234-44 , 2003

2003

J.V. Swinnen (KUL) – Androgens, lipogenesis and prostate cancer. Adv Exp Med Biol. 506: 379-87, 2002.

2002

H. Heimberg (VUB)  – Expansion and differentiation of exocrine cells from adult human pancreas towards endocrine b-cells by ectopic expression of key endocrinogenic transcription factors. Diabetes 50 :2219-24, 2001

2001

Chantal Mathieu (KUL) – 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 : Endocrinology meets the immune system Verh K Acad Geneeskd Belg. 64 :71-80; 2002, discussion 80-2.

2000

P. Gilon (UCL) – CA 2+ signaling in the pancreatic B-cell: regulatory mechanisms and role in the control of insulin secretion.
J Biol Chem. 16 : 274(29):20197-205, 1999.

1999

I. Colin (UCL) – Evidence for a role of vasoactive factors, endothelin-1 and nitric oxide, in thyroid specific angiogenic and inflammatory processes. Eur J Endocrinol. 136 (6) : 649-55, 1997.

1998

G. Van den Berghe – Acute and prolonged critical illness as different neuroendocrine paradigms
J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 83 : 1827-1834, 1998

1997

J. Parma – Diversity and prevalence of somatic mutations in the TSH receptor and Gs a -genes as a cause of toxic thyroid adenomas. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 82 : 2695-2701, 1997

1996

F.E. de Zegher – Small as foetus and short as child : from endogenous to exogenous growth hormone . J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 82 : 2021-2026, 1997

1994

F.C. Schuit – Factors determining the glucose sensitivity and glucose responsiveness of pancreatic ß-cells
Horm. Res. 46 : 99-106, 1996

1993

M. Parmentier – Orphan receptors: how many unknown messengers ?

1992

J. Auwerx – Regulation of gene expression by fatty acids and fibric acid derivatives : an integrative role for peroxisome proliferator activated receptors. Horm. Res. 38 : 269-277, 1992.

1991

J.J. Body – Calcitonin : from the determination of circulating levels in various physiological and pathological conditions, to the demonstration of lymphocyte receptors. Horm. Res. 39 : 166-170, 1993.

1990

J. Verhaeghe –  The effect of diabetes mellitus on bone and mineral metabolism. Horm. Res. 34 : 245-248, 1990.

1989

E. Van Cauter – Diurnal and ultradian rhythms in human endocrine functions. Horm. Res. 34 : 45-53, 1990.

1988

J.P. Bourguignon – Time-related neuroendocrine manifestations of puberty. Horm. Res. 30 : 224-234, 1988.

1987

R.J. Paridaens – Characterization and therapeutic use of hormone dependence of breast cancer. Acta Clin. Belg. 43 : 127-138, 1988.

1986

J.Cl. Henquin – Regulation of insulin release by ionic and electrical events in ß-cells. Horm. Res. 27 : 168-178, 1987.

1985

D.G. Pipeleers – Functional dissection of the endocrine pancreas. Horm. Res. 23 : 225-234, 1986