Comparative Medicine chair honored with Ernst Oppenheimer Award

Tamas L. Horvath, D.V.M., Ph.D., Jean and David W. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Research and chair of the Section of Comparative Medicine, has been honored by the Endocrine Society with the 2012 Ernst Oppenheimer Award, one of the society’s Laureate Awards. Horvath, also professor of neurobiology and of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences, is director of the Yale Program on Integrative Cell Signaling and Neurobiology of Metabolism. His work has played a key role in the development of the current model of neuroendocrine regulation of energy balance.