Van Wyk Award Acceptance Speech

摘要

I thank the Society and the Van Wyk Award committee for this honor. Judson Van Wyk was a friend and colleague; and a mentor for all things related to somatomedins and growth. His IGF-I radioimmunoassay was the gold standard for nearly two decades, setting the stage for standardizeddiagnosis and management of growth hormone deficiency. He was one of the pioneers whose life work added growth factors to the list of classic hormones constituting the basic science of endocrinology. And to be included in the rare company of the two former recipients of the Van Wyk Award, Drs. Grumbach and Blizzard, is gratifying and humbling at the same time.I share this honor with Beverly, my partner for the.past 57 years. We met at UC Berkeley in 1949 and married in January 1951 during my second year in medical school.