Endocrine Abstracts

Peter J Fuller, Prince Henry’s Institute, Clayton, Victoria, Australia. Abstract

Professor Fuller is an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow at Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne where is the Associate Director and Head of the Steroid Receptor Biology Group. He is also Director of the Endocrinology Unit at the Monash Medical Centre/Southern Health and an Adjunct Professor in Medicine and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Monash University.

He trained in Melbourne in both clinical endocrinology and molecular endocrinology before postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

He was awarded a Wellcome Trust Australian Senior Research Fellowship in 1987 and has received the Eric Susman Prize from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

He has served on the Council and as President of the Endocrine Society of Australia; in 2008 he was made a Life Member of the Society. He has served as a Receiving Editor for Clinical Endocrinology and is currently an Editor of Endocrinology.

He has published over 170 original articles, reviews and book chapters.

His research interests lie primarily in understanding the molecular mechanisms of adrenal steroid hormone action. His laboratory also has collaborative programmes to study the molecular pathogenesis of granulosa cell tumours of the ovary.