A director of the Chicago Diabetes Project is being honored for raising the most charity funds in a 2011 marathon.

Dr. Jose Oberholzer is part of the Chicago Diabetes Project's charity team. They're called "Cellmates on the Run" and they raised more than $125,000 in the 2011 Bank of America Chicago Marathon.

The Chicago Diabetes Project is a collaboration of scientists, researchers, doctors and surgeons.

Oberholzer is also director of a transplant program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

He's receiving the Mayor Richard M. Daley and Maggie Daley Award on Tuesday. The award was established in 2010.