Gregory J. Morton (MTE) has been selected as the 2010 recipient of the
Perkins Coie Award for Discovery. He will receive $20,000 for his project
"Normalization of Blood Glucose Levels in Uncontrolled Diabetes without
Insulin." The award is the fourth in the law firm's five-year commitment
to support translational research at the South Lake Union campus. Dr.
Morton is a research assistant professor of medicine and an investigator
with the UW Medicine Diabetes and Obesity Center of Excellence where he
studies the role of the brain in the regulation of energy balance and
glucose metabolism.