Endocrine Abstracts

Anna Spada is currently Full Professor at the School of Medice, University of Milan. Her main research interests are on signal transduction in pituitary cells, pathogenesis of pituitary tumors, genotype/phenotype relationships in acromegalic patients with gsp mutations, tissue specific GNAS1 gene imprinting, molecular mechanisms of resistance to hormone action, activating and inactivating mutations of GNAS1 in endocrine disorders, polymorphic variants of somatostatin receptor genes in acromegalic patients, polymorphic variants of D2 receptor gene and resistance to cabergoline, pharmacogenomics.

Professor A Spada has been on the Editorial Board of numerous, prestigious peer-revied journal including Endocrinology, Journal of Endocrinological Investigation, Endocrine-Related Cancer and is past Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Molecular Endocrinology.

She has chared 98 national and 42 International Meetings and has lectured world-wide. Professor A Spada has authored over 133 articles in peer-reviewed journals.