For his research entitled “Demonstration of a Day-Night Rhythm in Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial Function”, Dirk van Moorsel received the award for best abstract translational endocrinology, during the annual Dutch Endocrine Meeting on January 30th, 2016. For the award; the independent jury scored the quality of the abstract, the presentation and the way of handling questions.
The research was a collaboration between the division of endocrinology of the Maastricht University Medical Center (B. Havekes, N. Schaper), Institut Pasteur de Lille (H. Duez, B. Staels), Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston (F. Scheer) and DMRG (D. van Moorsel, J. Hansen, B. Havekes, M. Hesselink, P. Schrauwen).
