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. Carlos Dieguez. The prize will be presented as part of the ECE 2015 opening ceremony where Prof. Dieguez will deliver his lecture. Prof. Dieguez will also deliver two other lectures at future ESE scientific meetings. Further information can be found at http://www.ese-hormones.org/prizes/

Prof. Carlos Dieguez, Professor of Physiology, Scientific Director, Center for Medical Research, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Prof. Carlos Dieguez graduated in Medicine at the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1979. From 1981 to 1987 he completed his PhD and postdoctoral training under the supervision of M. Scanlon at the Department of Medicine, the Welsh National School of Medicine in Cardiff (UK). During this period the main focus of his research was related to the neuroendocrine control of TSH and GH secretion.

In 1988, he returned to the University of Santiago de Compostela where he is currently Professor of Physiology and Scientific Director of the Center for Medical Research. He has published over 450 research papers and reviews. His work has been focused in the neuroendocrine control of pituitary hormone secretion, energy balance and peripheral lipid metabolism.

His group maintains a large number of collaborations with different endocrine groups in Europe as well as being part of different consortiums funded by the EU (Diabesity, Neurofast, Reprobesity, Trans-in).