Wiebke Arlt Professor of Medicine

Wiebke Arlt is Professor of Medicine and Head of the Centre for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (CEDAM) within the School of Clinical & Experimental Medicine at the University of Birmingham. She is a Consultant Endocrinologist at the University Hospital Birmingham, the Birmingham Women’s Hospital and the Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Her clinical work focuses on adrenal, pituitary and reproductive endocrinology including adrenal tumours, adrenal insufficiency, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, Cushing’s and androgen excess disorders, e.g. polycystic ovary syndrome.

She is a committed clinician scientist and heads a large research group working on basic and clinical aspects of adrenal and gonadal disorders, with a particular focus on steroid endocrinology including steroid analysis by mass spectrometry techniques. Her research is supported mainly by the Medical Research Council UK (MRC Senior Fellowship, Programme Grant, Biomarker Grant).

Wiebke Arlt serves on the Executive Committee of the European Society of Endocrinology and on several committees of the Society for Endocrinology United Kingdom; she is also a member of the MRC Training & Research Oversight Group. She is a steering committee member of the European Network for the Study of Adrenal Tumours, ENS@T, and the FP7 European Collaborative Network on Disordered Sex Development, EuroDSD; she participate in EU Marie Curie ITNs and hosts EU Marie Curie fellows.

She is an editorial board member of the European Journal of Endocrinology, Journal of Endocrinology and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

Xavier Bertagna Professor of Endocrinology

Xavier Bertagna is Professor of Endocrinology, Chief of the Department of Endocrinology of Cochin hospital, Faculté de Médecine René Descartes, Université Paris 5, Paris, France.

He trained at the Clinical Research Center of Montreal (Dr. M. Chrétien), and at the Endocrine Division, Vanderbilt Medical School, Nashville (Dr. D. Orth). His research interest is in endocrine tumors, adrenal cancer, Cushing's syndrome, disorders of the pituitary-adrenal axis, polypeptide hormone precursors, and takes place in the Endocrinology Department of Institut Cochin (INSERM U-567).

Xavier Bertagna is involved in many National and International Professional bodies; he is presently a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society of Endocrinology.

Jérôme Bertherat Professor of Endocrinology

Jérôme Bertherat is professor of Endocrinology at Paris Descartes University, head of the Center for Rare Adrenal Diseases in  Cochin Hospital and the leader of the research team “endocrine tumors and signaling” in the Endocrinology, Cancer & Metabolism Department of the Cochin Institute (INSERM U567 & CNRS UMR8104), Paris, France.

His main research specialties include endocrine tumors, the genetics of familial endocrine tumors and Cushing’s syndrome.

In the focus of ENSAT his research team studies the molecular genetics of adrenocortical tumors in order to both improve diagnosis and classification, and unravel the pathogenesis of these tumors. These studies are done in the Cochin Institute with various large scale genomics approaches using mainly dna chips. Recent results and ongoing projects are dedicated to the molecular diagnosis of adrenocortical tumors using transcriptome and CGH analysis and the identification of new genes responsible for familial adrenocortical tumors. His research team is also studying genetic and signaling alterations of the cAMP and Wnt/b-catenin pathways in adrenocortical tumors and the hereditary multiple neoplasia syndrome Carney complex.
These researches are supported by INCa (National Cancer Institute), ANR (National Research Agency) and the Carte d’Identité des Tumeurs program from the Ligue contre le Cancer association.

Martin Heinrich Reincke Professor of Medicine

Martin Heinrich Reincke is the director of the Medizinische Klinik - Innenstadt, Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich and chair of the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology. The Medizinische Klinik - Innenstadt is part of Ludwig-Maximilians University, one of the leading institutions in German academic medicine.

His research specialities include adrenal physiology and pathophysiology, endocrine hypertension, pituitary disease, mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid action and stress research. Professor Reincke is heading a research team specifically exploring the prevalence and relevance of mineralocorticoid excess in resistant hypertension on the epidemiological, clinical, genetic and molecular level. The research teams of his clinic have particular expertise in assay development and validation for endocrine disease, development of genetically manipulated animals as models for human adrenal disease.

Professor Reincke was previously head of the Section of Endocrinology at the University Hospital of Freiburg (1989 to 2004) before moving to Munich. He is a member of many national and international societies. He has served in the Executive Board of the German Endocrine Society, is on the editorial board of several international journals, and currently serves as faculty dean of the university.