Price lecture of Prof. Patrik Rorsman, the British winner of the Feldberg Award 2016

On occasion of its “dies academicus 2016” the Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus at the TUD together with the Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University Hospital and School of Medicine TU Dresden was honored to host the 2016 prize lecture of this year Feldberg award winner Prof. Patrik Rorsman. Dr. Rorsman chairs the Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Oxford. In his Feldberg lecture entitled “The pancreatic alpha-cell: the sadly neglected neighbour of the famous beta-cell” on June 1^st, 2016, he focused on the glucagon producing pancreatic alpha-cells and showed that the loss of insulin secretion in diabetes is accompanied by defects in the release of the other islet hormones, such as glucagon. Therefore, type-2 diabetes is best described as a multihormonal disorder.