A Canadian endocrinologist whose research has helped develop therapies for diabetes and obesity and three chemists whose work has advanced the understanding of RNA were announced Tuesday as winners of Israel’s prestigious Wolf Prize.
Daniel Drucker of the University of Toronto received this year’s Wolf Prize for Medicine.for his research on intestinal hormones and their use in the treatment of diabetes and other metabolic diseases”, as reported by the Wolf Foundation.
The 2023 laureates were announced by the Wolf Foundation, a state entity that grants the prize to promote excellence in the arts and sciences. In the 45 years since its creation, dozens of Wolf Prize laureates have won Nobel Prizes.
The other honorees this year are Ingrid Daubechies, from Duke University, in mathematics; Chuan He, from the University of Chicago, Hiroaki Suga, from the University of Tokyo, and Jeffery W. Kelly, from the Scripps Research Institute, in chemistry; Martinus van Genuchten, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in agriculture; and Fujiko Nakaya, from Japan, and Richard Long, from the United Kingdom, in art.
The awards were announced Tuesday in Jerusalem. in a ceremony presided over by Isaac Herzog, President of Israel.
“Looking at the work of this year’s laureates, what strikes me most is not just the faculties of the human intellect that they reflect, but the determination they express to alleviate human suffering and improve life on Earthhe declared.
The delivery ceremony is scheduled for June.
Past laureates include astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, artist Marc Chagall, conductor Zubin Mehta and musician Stevie Wonder.
