Alvin C. Powers, MD, is the recipient of the 2024 Albert Renold Award, which is presented to an individual whose career is distinguished by outstanding achievements in the training and mentorship of diabetes research scientists and in the development of communities of scientists to enhance diabetes research. Powers helped found the NH/NIDDK Medical Student Research Program in Diabetes which nurtures young physician-scientists nationwide. For more than two decades, he guided students as director of the Vanderbilt Medical Student Research Training Program in Diabetes, and he was instrumental in restructuring the American Diabetes Association’s interest groups to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration and career development opportunities. Dr. Powers is the Joe C. Davis Chair in Biomedical Science and Professor of Medicine, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he is the Director of the Vanderbilt Diabetes Center, the PI of the NIH-funded, Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC), and the Chief of the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism. The Vanderbilt DRTC is a NIH-funded center that facilities the diabetes-related research of more than 140 Vanderbilt scientists. He served as the President of Medicine & Science of the ADA in 2017.