Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Ivan Semeniuk
Publication Date: April 5, 2025 - 19:48
Daniel Drucker, Canadian co-discoverer of anti-obesity drugs, among 2025 Breakthrough Prize winners
April 5, 2025
Two Canadian researchers were among the winners named at this year’s Breakthrough Prize ceremony on Saturday. The annual event, held in Los Angeles, celebrates the world’s largest science awards with a dose of Hollywood glam.Daniel Drucker, a physician and senior investigator at Toronto’s Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, was one of five researchers jointly awarded a US$3-million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for discoveries leading to the development of a class of drugs that are now widely used in the treatment of Type 2 diabetes and obesity.
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