Iranian researcher wins prestigious medicine prize awarded by Kuwait

Tehran, IRNA – Doctor Davood Khalili from Iran has won a prestigious regional award for his efforts to control cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.

Khalili was announced as the 2023 recipient of The State of Kuwait Prize for the Control of Cancer, Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, according to a Sunday report by Tehran's Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences.

He is an epidemiologist and professor at the center for research on the prevention of metabolic diseases at the institute of glandular sciences at Shahid Bahshti University of Medical Sciences.

Back in 2007, Dr. Fereydoun Azizi, the director of Iran’s Institute for Endocrine Sciences, won the award in 2007.

Also, Afshin Ostovar, a professor at Tehran University of Medical Science, received The State of Kuwait Prize for the Control of Cancer, Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes in 2022.