George King, MD
Dr. King is the Senior Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer at Joslin Diabetes Center, as well as the Thomas J. Beatson, Jr. Chair Professor of Medicine and Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. He has published over 300 papers and multiple books and patents. Dr. King’s work focuses on finding the causes of diabetic complications, founder of The Medalist Study to discover new treatments for diabetic complications and understanding the reasons for the high rate of diabetes in Asian Americans. His laboratory discovered that VEGF protein is most responsible for causing the severe form of diabetic eye disease. Dr. King is a member of The Association of American Physicians and a fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science.