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News | 31/05/2019 | Press Release, Award

SyNergy member Matthias Tschöp receives the highest honor from the German Diabetes Association

The 2019 Paul Langerhans Medal goes to Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Matthias Tschöp. The German Diabetes Association (DDG) is thereby paying tribute to Tschöp’s contributions to research in the field of diabetes and to the development of new drug candidates for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. The Langerhans Medal is the highest award conferred by the German Diabetes Association. Named after the physician Paul Langerhans, the medal has been awarded to leading international researchers in diabetology for over 40 years.

Professor Matthias Tschöp, diabetes researcher and CEO of Helmholtz Zentrum München, received the award at the German Diabetes Congress in Berlin, which attracted 7,000 participants. Congress President Prof. Dr. Michael Roden presented the medal for “excellence in diabetes research and a major breakthrough in the development of individualized type 2 diabetes therapy.”