Endocrine Abstracts

W Arlt, School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Centre for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Abstract

Prof. Wiebke Arlt received her undergraduate medical training at the University of Cologne in Germany. She obtained her MD degree in 1993 with distinction and trained in General Medicine and Endocrinology and Diabetes at the University Hospital Würzburg under the auspices of Prof. Bruno Allolio. This was followed by postdoctoral training in Molecular Endocrinology at the University of California in San Francisco and in 2001 she obtained a DSc. After moving to Birmingham in 2002 to work with Prof. Paul Stewart, she was awarded an MRC Senior Clinical Fellowship in 2004. Wiebke now is a Professor of Medicine and Head of the Centre for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the University of Birmingham and Honorary Consultant Endocrinologist at the University Hospital Birmingham and the Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospitals.

Prof. Arlt is a committed clinician scientist and her research focuses on the pre-receptor regulation of androgen action. Her achievements include DHEA replacement therapy in adrenal insufficiency and the identification of mutations in P450 oxidoreductase and PAPS synthase causing androgen excess.

She is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Society of Endocrinology and a steering committee member of the European Network for the Study of Adrenal Tumours (ENS@T) and the European Collaborative Project EuroDSD on disordered sex development.