Prof. Eberhardt Standl Munich Diabetes Research Group, Germany

Dr. Eberhard Standl is Professor of Medicine, endocrinologist and angiologist at the Munich Diabetes Research Group/ Diabetes Research Institute. He graduated from the Universities of Munich and Frankfurt, and has developed his career in both Munich, and at the Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, USA. Professor Dr. Standl's principal areas of... read moreresearch are diabetology, micro- and macrovascular disease, cardioneuropathy, action and degradation of insulin, especially clinical application of human insulin, and epidemiology of cardiovascular diabetic complications. He has published some 575 original papers, review articles, textbook chapters and monographs. He has received various scientific awards, including the Bertram Award for research related to vascular disease in diabetes in 1981, the Castelli-Pedroli Prize of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in 1999, the Harold Rifkin Award of the American Diabetes Association in 2005, and the Albert Renold Medal of EASD 2006.