Endocrine Abstracts

Many endocrine disorders exhibit a distinctive biochemical or clinical phenotype and I will illustrate how our research has provided novel genetic and physiological insights into hormone action in the human context. Isolated deficiency of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), due to loss-of-function mutations in the FSHβ subunit gene, presents with primary amenorrhoea or male infertility. In females, ovarian follicles are preserved and treatment with exogenous FSH induces c...

VKK Chatterjee, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom AbstractKrishna 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 Res...