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The “Congenital” Scientist | Professor Chrousos on Endocrine News

The “Congenital” Scientist | Professor Chrousos on Endocrine News

Honored by both the Endocrine Society and the European Society of Endocrinology with the 2023 Transatlantic Alliance Award, George Chrousos, MD, ScD, has made significant contributions to endocrine research on both sides of the Atlantic! Endocrine News speaks with Chrousos about what this award means to him, conducting pioneering research on two different continents, the importance of studying stress, and why he became an endocrinologist in the first place.

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In October, the Endocrine Society and the European Society of Endocrinology (ESE) jointly awarded the 2023 Transatlantic Alliance Award to Prof. George P. Chrousos, MD, ScD.

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The Transatlantic Alliance Award, which began in 2021, recognizes a leader who has made significant advancements in endocrine research in Europe and the U.S. Chrousos, who is professor emeritus of pediatrics and endocrinology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) School of Medicine in Athens, Greece, as well as UNESCO Chair on Adolescent Health Care and director of the University Research Institute on Maternal and Child Health and Precision Medicine, both at NKUA, exemplifies transatlantic endocrine leadership.

Earlier in his career, Chrousos was chief of the Pediatric and Reproductive Endocrinology Branch at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and John Kluge Distinguished Chair in Technology and Society at the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. His transnational training of more than 60 renowned physician-scientists coupled with his extensive research contributions — he has written more than 1,000 original papers — make him a worthy recipient of this prestigious award. In 2014, he received the Endocrine Society’s Fred Conrad Koch Lifetime Achievement Laureate Award.

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Chrousos has made outstanding and ongoing contributions to the endocrine community’s fundamental and clinical understanding of stress biology and medicine, the diseases of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis, and many stress-related disorders, including anxiety, depression, eating disorders, obesity, metabolic syndrome, sleep disorders, and inflammatory autoimmune and allergic diseases. He has even conceptualized and described new diseases: the chronic stress and inflammation syndrome (CSIS) and primary generalized glucocorticoid resistance, also known as Chrousos syndrome.

Chrousos’s achievements reflect a dual combination of outstanding basic and clinical creativity underscoring his standing as an international researcher and clinical leader of endocrinology and metabolism. Endocrine News is honored to have interviewed this luminary in the field.

Chrousos will present his award lecture, “The Endocrine Basis and Implications of Stress and Its Management,” at ENDO 2023, which will take place from June 15 to 18 in Chicago, Ill. Chrousos also will speak at ECE, the 25th European Congress of Endocrinology in Istanbul, Turkey, May 13-16, 2023.

See the interview: https://endocrinenews.endocrine.org/the-congenital-scientist/

The “MOVE AS YOU ARE” Program – Project is co-funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ program in the field of Sports

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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens ranks first in Greece and Cyprus – Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2025 and US News Global University Rankings 2025-2026 announced

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens ranks first in Greece and Cyprus – Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2025 and US News Global University Rankings 2025-2026 announced

US News & World Report Media Company has recently published the results of its Best Global Universities Rankings for 2025-2026. In this 11th consecutive annual edition of the US News Best Global Universities Rankings, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens placed 1st among Greek and Cypriot Universities and 216th worldwide. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki […]

Once again, top-scoring candidates choose the University of Athens

Once again, top-scoring candidates choose the University of Athens

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Renovated ‘New Chemistry Laboratory Building’ opens officially – School of Education, Library of the Department of Economics

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Prof. Dr. Xenofon Baraliakos, Medical Director of the Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, and Doctor Honoris Causa of the School of Medicine of the University of Athens, is the new president of the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR)

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Alpha TV: NKUA ranks among the top 100 Universities in the world

Alpha TV: NKUA ranks among the top 100 Universities in the world

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The 35th General Assembly of the Universities from the Capitals of Europe (UNICA) closes at NKUA with great success and participation from across the continent

The 35th General Assembly of the Universities from the Capitals of Europe (UNICA) closes at NKUA with great success and participation from across the continent

With the symbolic strength of Athens’ scholarly tradition encompassing contemporary academic collaboration, the 35th General Assembly of the Universities from the Capitals of Europe (UNICA) closed at the historic main building of the University of Athens. The proceedings began on Thursday, 19 June, with the UNICA Administrative General Assembly. The meeting, held in a hybrid […]

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The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, which was inaugurated on May 3, 1837, was initially housed in a renovated Ottoman building on the northeastern side of the Acropolis. This building has since been restored and now functions as the University Museum. Originally named the "Othonian University," after Otto, the first king of Greece, it consisted of four academic departments and 52 students. As the first university of the newly established Greek state, as well as of the broader Balkan and Mediterranean region, it assumed an important socio-historical role, which was pivotal in the development of specific forms of knowledge and culture within the country.

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