Bruno Allolio Professor of Medicine

Bruno Allolio is Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes at the Med. Univ. Hospital, University of Wuerzburg, Germany. His research specialties include adrenal tumors, adrenal insufficiency, steroid hormones and osteoporosis.

In the context of ENS@T Professor Allolio is leading a research team exploring the molecular biology, physiopathology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of adrenal tumours. His group has recently established the German Adrenal Cancer Registry now containing the largest clinical data base for this rare malignancy. Currently treatment protocols for adrenal cancer are evaluated in randomized prospective trials and new treatment options are developed. In addition, innovative imaging tools for adrenal disorders are under investigation. This research is funded by Deutsche Krebshilfe, BMBF, DFG and Sanderstiftung.
His group has particular expertise in steroid hormone replacement, adrenostatic drugs, and animal models of adrenal tumors.

Professor Allolio has served in the Executive Board of the German Endocrine Society and is on the editorial board of several international journals. Since 2005 he serves as a director in the executive committee of the newly founded European Society of Endocrinology.

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.

Franco Mantero Professor of Endocrinology and Medicine

Franco Mantero is Professor of Endocrinology and Medicine at the University of Padua and is Chairman of the Division of Endocrinology of the Padua University Hospital, where he is also Director of the Post-graduate School of Endocrinology and Metabolism.

His professional experience includes among other a year as Assistant at the "Clinique Medicale Therapeutique" University of Geneva, with prof.R.Mach, and a year as Research Fellow at the Clinical Study Center, Division of Endocrinology, University of California in San Francisco with prof.E.G.Biglieri. He has also been appointed for the Chair of Andrology and Endocrinology at the University of Catania, and the Chair of Endocrinology at the University of Ancona, where he was Director of the Endocrine Unit and of the Postgraduate School of Endocrinology and Metabolism.

He is author of more than 400 peer-reviewed , chapters of books and is editor of Proceedings and books. In 1992 he has received the Special Award for Scientific Achievements from the Italian Society of Endocrinology. His major fields of interest are endocrine hypertension, adrenal tumors and pituitary disorders. He has served in the Editorial Board of a number of international Journals, including Steroids, J.Hypertension, Clinical Endocrinology, JEndocrinology Investigations, and is Reviewer of most Journals in the field of Endocrinology and Hypertension. He is Member of several International Scientific Society, and is at present Member of the Executive Committee of the International Society of Endocrinology.

Pierre-Francois Plouin Professor of Medicine

Pierre-François Plouin is Professor of Medicine and head of the Hypertension unit, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris and Faculté de Médecine René Descartes Paris-5.

His research specialties include renovascular and endocrine hypertension.

Specifically, Professor Plouin is the chairman of the French adrenal Network COMETE, founded in 1993.

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.

Paul Michael Stewart Professor of Medicine

Paul Michael Stewart is Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, joint director of The Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility and Associate Dean for Clinical Research at the The Medical School, University of Birmingham.

His research specialties include reproductive endocrinology, steroid hormone metabolism, mineralocorticoids, glucocorticoids and endocrine hypertension. Specifically, Professor Stewart is head of a research group exploring the hypothesis that altered cortisol metabolism might underpin diverse diseases including hypertension, obesity-glucose tolerance, glaucoma, malignancy, bone disease and problems in fetal life such as fetal growth restriction (funded by Wellcome Trust programme grant, MRC Co-op, NIH).

His group has particularly expertise in corticosteroids and 11b-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase. Professor Stewart was previously a Medical Research Council Senior Clinical Fellow (1992-2002) and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the Academy of Medical Sciences.

In his discipline Professor Stewart is actively involved in the National Professional body (The Society for Endocrinology), the USA Endocrine Society (Clinical Chair 2004, Council 2005-) and the International Society for Endocrinology (Secretary General).

Professor Stewart has previously served as a member of the Clinical Interest Group of The Wellcome Trust and now serves on committees for the MRC (CRAG, Clinical Panel), Wellcome Trust (Chair, Physiological Sciences strategy committee) and BHF (Chairs and programme grants committee).

As a clinical endocrinologist and Consultant Physician he is actively involved in Acute Medical takes and the management of a spectrum of patients with Endocrinopathies including pituitary and adrenal disease, infertility, PCOS, neuroendocrine tumours and endocrine hypertension.

MassimoMannelli Professor of Endocrinology

Prof. Mannelli is Full Professor of Endocrinology in the Department of Clinical Pathophysiology , University of Florence. He is Senior Lecturer in Endocrinology at the Postgraduate School of Endocrinology, University of Florence.

He is member of the Italian Society of Endocrinology, the Italian Society of Hypertension and the Endocrine Society. In the period 2002-2005 he was the coordinator of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Society of Hypertension.

Prof. Mannelli has a wide experience in clinical endocrinology in view of his responsibility in the In patient Clinic and Day Hospital Service of the Endocrinology Unit of the University of Florence. His main research field encompasses the pathophysiology of the sympathetic-adrenal system as well as of the adrenal cortex and the endocrine hypertension.

Because of his expertise on pheochromocytoma he was invited speaker in several international Congresses as the 8th International Symposium on Catecholamines (Asilomar, CA, 13-18 Oct 1996), the 19th Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Hypertension (Prague, 23-27 June 2002), the 1st International Symposium on Pheochromocytoma (Bethesda, October 2005).

He published original papers on the modulation exerted in man on catecholamine release by prostaglandins, opioids and dopamine, on the adrenocortical cancer and on the clinics, the biology and the genetics of pheochromocytoma.

Wiebke Arlt Professor of Medicine

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