Professor Naveed Sattar awarded the Edwin Bierman Award
Published: 13 March 2025
Professor Naveed Sattar, Professor of Cardiometabolic Medicine at the School of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Health at the University of Glasgow, has been awarded the Edwin Bierman Award by the American Diabetes Association.
Professor Naveed Sattar, Professor of Cardiometabolic Medicine at the School of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Health at the University of Glasgow, has been awarded the Edwin Bierman Award by the American Diabetes Association. The award was given to honour his outstanding scientific achievement in the prevention and treatment of macrovascular complications.
Professor Sattar received the award as part of the American Diabetes Association’s National Scientific and Health Care Achievement Awards, which honour academics, clinicians, and educators who have contributed to substantial advances in diabetes care and research.
Professor Sattar’s main research activity includes investigating the causes, prevention and management of diabetes, obesity and heart disease. He was originally known for his epidemiology work in diabetes and cardiovascular disease, working primarily with Scottish, Swedish and English colleagues, but also others around the world. More recently, he has contributed to a number of trials of newer disease modifying diabetes and newer weight loss medicines, placing results into context via important meta-analyses, notable reviews and challenging opinion pieces.
In 2005 he was appointed as Professor of Metabolic Medicine at the University of Glasgow. Professor Sattar is also an Honorary Consultant in Metabolic Medicine at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, where he co-leads a cardiovascular disease prevention clinic. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the UK Academy of Medical Sciences.
Professor Sattar said: “It is always a privilege to receive awards from major associations but, of course, clinical research is a team sport and my outputs stem from the expertise and interactions with many wonderful and brilliant people from Glasgow, elsewhere in the UK and around the world.”
Professor Sattar has sat on committees for Circulation, Diabetologia, Diabetes Digest, Diabetes UK, European Association for Study of Diabetes (EASD), Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, American Diabetes Association, Scotland’s Chief Scientist Office, British Heart Foundation, and UK Biobank. He is currently an associate Editor for Diabetes Care.
Enquiries: ali.howard@glasgow.ac.uk or elizabeth.mcmeekin@glasgow.ac.uk
First published: 13 March 2025