Endocrine Abstracts

This prestigious prize is intended for established workers in the field of basic and clinical neuroendocrinology and is generously supported by Ipsen. This year’s recipient is Prof. Ashley Grossman. The prize will be presented as part of the ECE 2014 opening ceremony where Prof. Grossman will deliver his lecture. Prof. Grossman will also deliver two other lectures at future ESE scientific meetings. Further information can be found at http://www.ese-hormones.org/prizes/

Ashley Grossman initially graduated with a BA in Psychology and Social Anthropology from the University of London, then entered University College Hospital Medical School in London and took the University Gold Medal in 1975. He also obtained a BSc in Neuroscience. He joined the Department of Endocrinology at St Bartholomew’s Hospital where he spent most of his career, eventually as Professor of Neuroendocrinology, but has recently moved to become Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Oxford in the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism. In 2000 he was appointed a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2011 he was made a Fellow of Green-Templeton College at the University of Oxford. He has published more than 750 research papers and reviews.

He has a major interest in tumours of the hypothalamo-pituitary axis, especially Cushing’s disease, but his clinical concern and research has expanded increasingly to include broad areas of endocrine oncology, most especially neuroendocrine tumours of all types, including phaeochromocytomas, paragangliomas, adrenocortical cancer, medullary thyroid cancer and hereditary endocrine tumour syndromes. In terms of basic research, he has developed many studies on hypothalamic regulation, eventually exploring the interaction between the hypothalamus and the immune system in terms of cytokines and gaseous neurotransmitters. However, for the last decade he has focused on the molecular pathogenesis of pituitary, adrenal and neuroendocrine tumours.

He is Past-President of the European Neuroendocrine Association (ENEA) and of the UKI Neuroendocrine Tumour Society (UKINETS), Chairman of the European Neuroendocrine Society (ENETS) Advisory Board, and President of the Society for Endocrinology. He is past editor of the journal Clinical Endocrinology, on the editorial board of the major textbook De Groot and Jameson’s Endocrinology, is Vice-Chairman of the major online textbook Endotext.org, and serves on the editorial boards of many journals.