MDRC Director Marc Prentki has been awarded the 2011 Albert Renold Prize by 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 was invited to give the Albert Renold Lecture at the 2011 EASD annual meeting. The title of his talk was: “Tricycling along the β-cell and its coupling mechanisms for fuel induced insulin secretion”.