Mr. Takashi Shoda, president of the Manpei Suzuki Diabetes Foundation gave the opening address and presented the 2014 Manpei Suzuki International Prize for Diabetes Research to Dr. Daniel J.　Drucker, Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto, and Senior Scientist, Lunenfeld -Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital, on February 10, 2015 at a ceremony held in Tokyo, Japan.

Dr. Drucker received a Certificate of Honor, US$150,000, and a Japanese objet d’art.

Dr. Masato Kasuga, the chair of the Selection Committee presented the reasons for bestowing the 2014 Prize to Dr. Daniel J. Drucker

Dr. Drucker’s award lecture was entitled “Pleiotropic metabolic actions of enteroendocrine peptide”

Seated, left to right

Masato Kasuga
Chairman of the Selection Committee
National Center for Global Health and Medicine

Daniel J. Drucker
Winner of the prize
University of Toronto,
Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Canada

Mrs. Cheryl F. Rosen Drucker
Spouse of the prize winner

Takashi Shoda
President, Manpei Suzuki Diabetes Foundation

Back row, left to right

Toshikazu Honda
Managing Director, Manpei Suzuki Diabetes Foundation

Masakazu Haneda
Member of the Selection Committee
Asahikawa Medical University