Awards: Pfizer Visiting Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA UNESCO - Hellmut Mehnert Award on aetiology and prevention of diabetes, Dresden, Germany Castelli Pedroli Prize, EASD Annual Meeting, Budapest, Hungary MEDIX-award for the most outstanding publication in medical sciences from Finland in 2001 (New Engl J Med 2001;344:1343-50), Helsinki, Finland