BES Lecture Award — Previous winners

YearWinnerInstitutionLecture
2025Leen AntonioKU LeuvenThe Changing Landscape in the Assessment of Steroid Hormone concentrations: is it time to set them free?
2024Jan GunstKU LeuvenHyperglycemia and macronutrients: synergistically contributing to adverse outcome of critical illness?
2023Philippe LysyUCLThe prismatic forms of diabetes in pediatrics: natural evolution, strategies for β-cell replacement, and tolerance to physical activity.
2022Bruno LapauwUGhentDeterminants and consequences of sex steroid exposure in men.
2021Katrien BenhalimaKU LeuvenLessons from the Belgian Diabetes in Pregnancy study.
2020Pieter GillardKU LeuvenAdvanced therapies that improve glucose control and quality of life of people with type 1 diabetes.
2019Liliya RostomyanULiègePituitary gigantism: clinical characteristics and new insights into the genetics of GH-secreting pituitary adenomas.
2018Iulia PotoracULiègeMutations of the luteinizing hormone and its receptor – from phenotype to molecular anomalies.
2017Patrice CaniUCLGut microbiota, clinical implications in obesity and related metabolic disorders.
2016Daniel A. CunhaULBSaving private … beta-cells.
2015Nico De LeuVUBVEGF and endothelial cells for beta cell protection, (re)generation and transplantation.
2014Anne Simonne ParentULgEarly shaping and disorganization of the endocrine brain by environment.
2012Ils VanhorebeekKULMultiple organ failure during critical illness: mitochondrial dysfunction and impaired autophagy as key targets for pharmacological intervention.
2011Karolien De BosscherUGentMolecular mechanisms modulating the glucocorticoid receptor.
2010Myriam CnopULBStress in the ER (endoplasmic reticulum) and the development of diabetes mellitus.
2009Guy T'SjoenUGentPresenting a state of the art lecture on endocrine care in treatment of transsexualism.
2008Adrian F. DalyULgThe clinical, pathological, and genetic features of familial isolated pituitary adenomas. Eur J Endocrinol. 157:371-82, 2007.
2007Kris PoppeVUBThyroid autoimmunity and female infertility. Verh K Acad Geneeskd Belg. 2006;68:357-77.
2006K. SpiegelULBThe endocrine and metabolic consequences of sleep loss. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2004 Nov;89(11):5762-71.
2005C. MaenhautULBProfiles in gene expression in thyroid tumors and in model systems. Bull Mem Acad R Med Belg. 159:533-9; discussion 539-40, 2004.
2004J.C. JonasUCLPhenotypical alterations of pancreatic beta-cells exposed to supraphysiological glucose concentrations. Diabetologia. 46:1234-44, 2003.
2003J.V. SwinnenKULAndrogens, lipogenesis and prostate cancer. Adv Exp Med Biol. 506: 379-87, 2002.
2002H. HeimbergVUBExpansion and differentiation of exocrine cells from adult human pancreas towards endocrine β-cells by ectopic expression of key endocrinogenic transcription factors. Diabetes 50:2219-24, 2001.
2001Chantal MathieuKUL1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3: Endocrinology meets the immune system. Verh K Acad Geneeskd Belg. 64:71-80; 2002, discussion 80-2.
2000P. GilonUCLCA2+ signaling in the pancreatic B-cell: regulatory mechanisms and role in the control of insulin secretion. J Biol Chem. 16: 274(29):20197-205, 1999.
1999I. ColinUCLEvidence for a role of vasoactive factors, endothelin-1 and nitric oxide, in thyroid specific angiogenic and inflammatory processes. Eur J Endocrinol. 136(6): 649-55, 1997.
1998G. Van den BergheAcute and prolonged critical illness as different neuroendocrine paradigms. J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 83: 1827-1834, 1998.
1997J. ParmaDiversity and prevalence of somatic mutations in the TSH receptor and Gsα-genes as a cause of toxic thyroid adenomas. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 82: 2695-2701, 1997.
1996F.E. de ZegherSmall as foetus and short as child: from endogenous to exogenous growth hormone. J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 82: 2021-2026, 1997.
1994F.C. SchuitFactors determining the glucose sensitivity and glucose responsiveness of pancreatic β-cells. Horm. Res. 46: 99-106, 1996.
1993M. ParmentierOrphan receptors: how many unknown messengers?
1992J. AuwerxRegulation of gene expression by fatty acids and fibric acid derivatives: an integrative role for peroxisome proliferator activated receptors. Horm. Res. 38: 269-277, 1992.
1991J.J. BodyCalcitonin: from the determination of circulating levels in various physiological and pathological conditions, to the demonstration of lymphocyte receptors. Horm. Res. 39: 166-170, 1993.
1990J. VerhaegheThe effect of diabetes mellitus on bone and mineral metabolism. Horm. Res. 34: 245-248, 1990.
1989E. Van CauterDiurnal and ultradian rhythms in human endocrine functions. Horm. Res. 34: 45-53, 1990.
1988J.P. BourguignonTime-related neuroendocrine manifestations of puberty. Horm. Res. 30: 224-234, 1988.
1987R.J. ParidaensCharacterization and therapeutic use of hormone dependence of breast cancer. Acta Clin. Belg. 43: 127-138, 1988.
1986J.Cl. HenquinRegulation of insulin release by ionic and electrical events in β-cells. Horm. Res. 27: 168-178, 1987.
1985D.G. PipeleersFunctional dissection of the endocrine pancreas. Horm. Res. 23: 225-234, 1986.