September 11, 2025 – The American Thyroid Association® is delighted to recognize W. Edward Visser, MD, PhD, with the 2025 Van Meter Award. Established in 1930 and given annually The Van Meter Award Lectureship recognizes outstanding contributions to research on the thyroid gland or related subjects. The award is given to an investigator who is not older than the age of forty-five in the year of the award. The Van Meter award winner is kept secret until the time of the award lecture during the ATA Annual Meeting.
Dr. Visser presented his research on “Understanding and Treating MCT8 Deficiency: From Mutation to Medicine,” on September 11th during the 94th ATA Annual Meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is the division chief of Endocrinology at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and heads the Erasmus MC Thyroid Center, including the research laboratory.
Dr. Visser has great interest in understanding normal and disordered cellular thyroid hormone signaling. His research group performs translational and clinical studies in this field with particular interest in elucidating mechanisms of disease in MCT8 deficiency as well as developing a therapy. The ATA is honored to recognize Dr. Visser and his work with this prestigious award.
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