Philip E. Cryer

Early life and education Philip Cryer was born on January 5, 1940 and grew up in El Paso, Illinois. Using this assay, he and cardiology collaborators at Washington University examined catecholamine release during acute myocardial infarction, showing that elevated plasma catecholamines correlated with infarct size and mortality.

Cryer later shifted focus to the physiology of glucose counter-regulation—how hormonal responses restore blood glucose during hypoglycemia—and discovered that repeated hypoglycemia blunts this defense. He coined the term hypoglycemia-associated autonomic failure (HAAF) to describe this condition. Claude Bernard Medal / Prize, awarded by the European Association for the Study of Diabetes

Selected publications

Karlsberg R. P., Cryer P. E., Roberts R. (1981). "Serial plasma catecholamine response early in acute myocardial infarction.” American Heart Journal 102 (1): 24–31. . Cryer P. E. (2005). “Hypoglycemia-associated autonomic failure in diabetes.” Diabetes 54 (12): 3592–3601. . Cryer P. E. (2013). “Mechanisms of hypoglycemia-associated autonomic failure in diabetes.” New England Journal of Medicine 369 (4): 362–372. .