Marc Prentki received the 2011 Albert Renold Prize from the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) for "outstanding achievements in research on the islets of Langerhans".

As part of the prize Dr Prentki is invited to give the Albert Renold Lecture at the next EASD annual meeting, which will be held 12-16 September in Lisbon, Portugal. The title of his talk will be: "Tricycling along the β-cell and its coupling mechanisms for fuel induced insulin secretion".

2011 is an exceptional year of Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA) funding for MDRC members: 8 of the 24 projects funded across Canada this year were granted to MDRC members!

Pedro Geraldes receives the prestigious "Scholar Award" of the CDA attributed to newly independent investigators establishing diabetes-related research in a Canadian university.

Three MDRC students are awarded at the 3^rd annual COLosSUS meeting. COLosSUS, a group of scientists interested in imaging in medical research, held their 3^rd annual meeting 17 and 18 February 2011. Mourad Ferdaoussi (Post-Doc, Poitout lab), Émilie Pepin (PhD student, Prentki lab) and Meriem Semache (PhD student, Poitout lab) received awards for their presentation.

Pierrette Gaudreau and Stephanie Fulton are co-organizing the 37^th Meeting of the Société de Neuroendocrinologie and 4^th Meeting franco-québécois that will take place in Quebec City, September 28-30, 2011. Click here for more details.

Marc Prentki and Vincent Poitout's works have been highlighted in Le donataire. A full page of the June edition of Le donataire, the monthly newsletter of the CHUM foundation, has been dedicated to describing the achievements of the laboratories of Drs Marc Prentki and Vincent Poitout. Click here for a pdf version of the publication.

Jean-Pierre Hallé and Lawrence Rosenberg have edited a book on bioartificial therapies and tissue transplantations. Eighty-one scientists from 32 institutions in 12 different countries have contributed to the book entitled “The Bioartificial Pancreas and other Biohybrid Therapies”, edited by Drs Hallé and Rosenberg.