Professor Steve Bloom receives a knighthood!

The Society for Endocrinology would like to congratulate Professor Steve Bloom on receiving a knighthood in the 2012 New Year Honours list. Professor Sir Steve Bloom (Imperial College London) was Chairman of the Society for Endocrinology from November 2002–2005 and prior to that General Secretary from 1999. He was awarded the Society for Endocrinology Dale Medal in 2003. Professor Sir Steve received his knighthood in recognition of his services to Medical Science and is credited with transforming how obesity is understood. Further information

Professor Bloom has published a number of articles in Society for Endocrinology journals; these are free online including:

Endocrinology: the next 60 years - a commentary published in Journal of Endocrinology in which "designer endocrinology" is discussed as a future possibility.

The Starling Review: Appetite Control - a review published in Journal of Endocrinology as part of a special series to commemorate the centenary of the first use of the word "hormone".

Who’s to say the risk’s worth taking - an interesting article originally published in the New Scientist in September 2002 and reprinted in the Society’s newsletter The Endocrinologist where Professor Sir Steve discusses the potential issues surrounding his groundbreaking research.

These and other papers published by Professor Bloom in Society for Endocrinology journals are free online in the Society for Endocrinology Archive.