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Dr. C. Ronald Kahn is an internationally recognized diabetes researcher, the President (since 2000) and Director (since 1981) of the Joslin Diabetes Center and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kahn is the preeminent investigator of insulin signal transduction and mechanisms of altered signaling in disease. Dr. Kahn has received numerous honors and awards, including the highest scientific awards of the American Diabetes Association, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, International Diabetes Federation, the American Federation of Clinical Research, and the Endocrine Society of the U.S. He also served as Chair of the Congressionally-mandated Diabetes Research Working Group that developed a strategic plan for federally funded diabetes research nationwide. | 