Diabetes researcher Zimmett honoured

Diabetes luminary Prof Paul Zimmet has been honoured by his peers, receiving the Kellion Award for his contribution to the field.

Director of the International Diabetes Institute and chairman of AGT Bioscience's scientific advisory board, Zimmet was recognised at the Australian Diabetes Society/Australian Diabetes Educators Association scientific meeting in Melbourne.

Commenting on the award AGT chief Greg Collier said Zimmet had an outstanding international reputation as a world expert in diabetes.

"This is a tremendous recognition of the leading role that Paul has played in diabetes research and treatment both in Australia and the developing world," Collier said.

Zimmet presented the keynote lecture at the conference, entitled 'The devil that is diabetes', in which he likened the disease epidemic to be of similar proportion to that of AIDS in the last century.