Endocrine Abstracts

Berenice B Mendonca, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil AbstractBerenice B Mendonca received her M.D in 1973 from Faculdade de Medicina do Triangulo Mineiro, Brazil. In 1984, Prof Mendonca completed her research fellowship in Endocrinology at the University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, where she developed the whole of her scientific achievements.During the course of her career, Prof Mendonca ha...

Günter K Stalla MD, is Professor of Internal Medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich and medical director of Medicover Neuroendocrinology. For almost 30 years, he has been the head of the Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Neuroendocrinology in the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry. He finished his residency at the Medical Clinic IV of the Ludwigs-Maximilians University of Munich. He is a...

Jens Bollerslev is head of the Section of Specialized Endocrinology at Oslo University Hospital, and Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has been a member of the Executive Board of the European Society of Endocrinology (ESE), former chair of the ESE Education Committee (2014–17), chair of the ESE committee for Post Graduate Courses (2016–19) and is currently chair of the newly es...

Jayne Franklyn, Head, School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine,College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK AbstractJayne Franklyn was awarded the MBChB (with Honours) degree at the University of Birmingham, UK in 1979. She was subsequently awarded MD and PhD for research into thyroid hormone action and TSH gene regulation whilst working as a MRC Training Fellow and Wellcome Trust Senior Cl...

Sheue-yann Cheng, Gene Regulation Section, National Institutes fo Health, Bethesda, MD, USA AbstractSheue-yann Cheng, PhD, is the chief of the Gene Regulation Section, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH) and an advisor for women scientists at the Center for Cancer Research, NCI. She is on the editorial boards of Thyroid, Endocrinology, and Expert Revi...

In these times of restricted funding, it becomes crucially important that you position yourself to be the only possible candidate for future employment in a postdoctoral position or any other career path that you chose. The time to do this is during your PhD and MD studies and during your first postdoc. There are no hard and fast rules about how you do this, but some pointers may help. First, you must have a passion for research if this is what you want to do. If this is a job...

This prestigious prize is intended for established workers in the field of basic or clinical neuroendocrinology, and is generously support by Ipsen. This year's recipient is Professor George P Chrousos. The prize will be presented as part of the ECE 2008 opening ceremony where Professor Chrousos will deliver his lecture. Professor Chrousos will also give two other lectures at future ESE scientific meetings. Further information can be found at <a href="http://www...

Ron G Rosenfeld, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA., USA. AbstractRon G Rosenfeld, MD, is the Senior Vice-President for Medical Affairs at the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health at Stanford University. He is Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University, as well as Professor and Chair (emeritus) of Pediatrics and of Cell and Developmental Biology at Oregon...