Lori Sussel Receives Albert Renold Prize

In September 2024, Lori Sussel, PhD, Research Director of the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes, traveled to Madrid, Spain, to accept the 18th Albert Renold Prize at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes’s annual meeting. The prize recognizes her contributions to pancreatic islet biology and acknowledges her more than 30 years of research investigating the development of the pancreas and differentiation and function of the pancreatic islet cells. Her work also identified regulatory factors essential for pancreas development and led to the identification of mutations that contribute to pancreatic agenesis and neonatal diabetes in humans. Her research has informed the scientific community on genetic risks for Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. As an awardee, Dr. Sussel delivered a lecture on her work at the annual meeting and received a monetary award.