Dr. Ele Ferrannini

Dr. Ele Ferrannini is the recipient of the 2020 Banting Medal of the American Diabetes Association for Scientific Achievement. This award recognizes significant, long-term contributions to the understanding, treatment or prevention of diabetes. Currently he is a senior research associate at the National Research Council (CNR) Institute of Clinical Physiology and professor of medicine at the University of Pisa,Italy. Dr. Ferrannini is renowned for his contributions to the fields of insulin resistance and associated disorders (hypertension, dyslipidemia), B-cell function and dysfunction in vivo, the incretin effect, and the cardiovascular complications of diabetes. Dr. Ferrannini has also done pioneering work in therapeutics, including DPP-4 and SGLT2 inhibition and bariatric surgery. His ultimate vision is to explain diabetes as the result of integrated multiorgan responses that confer to the hyperglycemia the risk of both macro- and microvascular complications. Dr. Ferrannini’s illustrious contributions have been recognized by prestigious honors including the Claude Bernard Award of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, and honorary doctorates from the Universities of Turku (Finland) and the University of Patras (Greece).