Attie named honorary professor
Alan Attie has been named the Henry and Annrita Lardy Professor of Biochemistry by the or WARF. He is one of ten who received this honor in 2025. This award includes $100,000 in research funding and recognizes faculty who have made major contributions to the advancement of knowledge through their research endeavors and their teaching and service activities. Henry Lardy was a professor of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1945 to 1988, where he studied pathways of cellular metabolism. He and his wife, Annrita, were longtime supporters of biochemical sciences.

Attie is a professor of biochemistry at UW–Madison. investigates the genetic and biochemical mechanisms underlying metabolic diseases, including β-cell function, insulin secretion, lipid metabolism and gene–diet interactions. Attie is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a former Shaw Scholar. He has also received an Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association. Attie serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Lipid Research.
“I am deeply honored to be named a WARF professor,” Attie said in a UW–Madison . “I owe this recognition to the many extraordinary people who have contributed to our work. I am especially grateful to the talented individuals who have devoted years — often decades — to research in my laboratory, as well as the brilliant graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and undergraduates.”
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