Dr. Cherrington received his PhD in Physiology from the University of Toronto in 1973 and did Postdoctoral work in the Physiology Department at Vanderbilt University. He currently holds the positions of Professor in the Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics and in the Department of Medicine and the Jacquelyn A. Turner and Dr. Dorothy J. Turner Chair in Diabetes Research. He has received numerous awards including the Lilly Award, the Rachmiel Levine Award and the Banting Award from the American Diabetes Association, the David Rumbough Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, the R.E. Heist Award from the University of Toronto, and the Charles R. Park Faculty Award for Research from Vanderbilt University. His career has spanned nearly 50 years during which he focused on the regulation of hepatic glucose metabolism by hormones, neural mediators, and substrates. He has published 325 peer reviewed papers, as well as 90 review articles.