The "http://www.seen.es/inicio.aspx" Endocrinology and Nutrition Spanish Society has rewarded the "http://www.vhir.org/larecerca/grupsrecerca/ca_grups_equip.asp?Idioma=en&mv1=2&mv2=1&mh1=2&mh2=1&mh3=1&mh4=0&ms=0&area=2&grup=1&menu=3" Diabetes and Metabolism research group from the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) with the FEEN award for their trajectory. The group, headed by Dr. Rafael Simó received the prize at the Society’s Annual Convention’s closing ceremony, on the 29th of May in Madrid.Dr. Rafael Simó has been coordinating the research in the field of diabetes and metabolism at VHIR since 1995. His group is investigating the pathogenesis and treatment of common diseases like diabetes and obesity. The team consists of basic and clinical researchers, and that produces relevant results and a very fast transmission of these results to the clinical practice. In the last 5 years, the research group has published 92 articles with an acumulate impact factor of 598 and 6.5 in average.Nowadays the group is coordinating the European consortium "http://eurocondor.eu/" Eurocondor and is part of the Spanish work web "http://www.ciberdem.org/" CIBERDEM, specialized in diabetes and metabolic related diseases, and the national consortium "http://www.revespcardiol.org/es/content/articulo/13114958/" RECAVA, formed by experts in cardiovascular diseases. The prize, funded by GSK, consists in 9,000 Euros and has the objective of awarding a national group, centre, service or department that has developed an excellent activity in the health care, the research or the teaching in the field of the nutrition and the endocrinology.