Dr. Bernard Thorens will be awarded a Certificate of Honor, US$200,000 and a Japanese objet d’art on March, 2025. The award ceremony will be held on March, 2025.

The Selection Committee highly recognized his pioneering and landmark contributions over the years to understand the mechanisms of glucose sensing in the pancreatic islets and the neurons of the central nervous system for the control of blood glucose homeostasis and regulation of food intake. The Committee also highly recognized his pioneering contribution to the cloning and functional characterization of GLP-1 and GIP receptors in the pancreatic beta cells, which paved the way for the use of GLP-1 analogs in the treatment of type 2 diabetes.

~ 2024 Selection Committee Members ~

Dr. Masato Kasuga (Chairman)
Director, The Institute of Medical Science Asahi Life Foundation
Honorary President, National Center for Global Health and Medicine
Dr. Hiroshi Ikegami
Professor Emeritus, Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes,
Kindai University
Dr. Kohjiro Ueki
Director, Diabetes Research Center, Research Institute,
National Center for Global health and Medicine
Dr. Frances M Ashcroft
DBE FRS, FMedSci
Department of Physiology, Anatomy＆Genetics　
University of Oxford
Dr. Douglas A Melton
Distinguished Research Fellow, Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
Harvard University, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology.
Dr. Domenico Accili
Russell Berrie Foundation Professor of Diabetes,
Director of the Diabetes Research Center,
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Dr. Gerald I Shulman
George R. Cowgill Professor of Physiological Chemistry
Professor of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Co-Director Yale Diabetes Research Center
Yale School of Medicine