Endocrine Abstracts

Volume 12

Society for Endocrinology Medal Lecture

VKK Chatterjee, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom Abstract

Krishna Chatterjee graduated from Cambridge and completed his clinical training in Oxford. He first trained in endocrinology at Hammersmith Hospital, London and subsequently undertook research in the Thyroid Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. In 1990, he returned to Cambridge as a Wellcome Senior Clinical Research Fellow and was appointed Professor of Endocrinology in 1998. His research interests include disorders of thyroid hormone action including resistance to thyroid hormone, the role of nuclear hormone receptors (including PPARγ) in human disease, and DHEA hormone replacement in adrenal insufficiency. He is the Director of a Supraregional Assay Service laboratory for unusual thyroid disorders and the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility in Cambridge.