Jose C. Florez MD, PhD
Chief, Endocrine Division and Diabetes Unit; Investigator, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Institute Member, Broad Institute; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsJose C. Florez, MD, PhD, is the Chief of the Endocrine Division and the Diabetes Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he holds the John T. Potts Jr., MD Endowed Chair in Medicine. He is also Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Institute Member at the Broad Institute.
He and his group have contributed to the performance and analysis of high-throughput genomic studies in type 2 diabetes and related traits in several international consortia such as MAGIC, GENIE, DIAGRAM, T2D-GENES, AMP-CMD, SIGMA and RADIANT. He leads the genetic research efforts of the Diabetes Prevention Program and the GRADE clinical trial, and directs the Study to Understand the Genetics of the Acute Response to Metformin and Glipizide in Humans (SUGAR-MGH). He is clinically active in the MGH Diabetes Center, the Endocrine inpatient consult service, the Internal Medicine service, and the Down Syndrome Program. He is an Associate Editor for Diabetes Care, an inducted member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, and the recipient of the 2010 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. In 2019 he received the Father of the Year award from the American Diabetes Association.