Endocrine Abstracts

The presence of differentiated follicular thyroid cells in thyroid cancer is critical for the antitumor response to radioactive iodide treatment, and loss of the differentiated phenotype is a key hallmark of iodide-refractory metastatic disease. Thus, one of the objective of our laboratory is to study the signals and molecular mechanisms involved in thyroid differentiation in cancer. Among genes responsible of thyroid differentiated phenotype are the transcription factor PAX8 ...

Pilar Santisteban is a Full Professor at the Biomedical Research Institute of the Spanish Council of Research, Madrid, Spain. Among other responsibilities, she has been a Vice President of the Spanish Endocrine Society and a member of the Executive Committee of the European Thyroid Association (ETA). Currently, she is the manager of the Spanish National Grants Program, the Spanish Member of the Joint Research Center o...