Steven Shoelson, Helen and Morton Adler Chair and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Steven Shoelson, MD, PhD
Helen and Morton Adler Chair and Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School

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, Head of the Section on Pathology and Molecular Pharmacology, and Associate Director of Research at the Joslin Diabetes Center. His Ph.D. in chemistry and M.D. degrees were both awarded by the University of Chicago, and he conducted internship and residency training in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. 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, and the Caledonian Prize of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is well known for studies relating inflammation and the immune system to the pathophysiology of obesity-induced insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Based on these findings he is pioneering new approaches for targeting inflammation in the treatment and prevention of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.