Endocrine Abstracts

Prof. Adrian Daly MB BCh, PhD, was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in the United States and Ireland. He received an Honors Bachelor of Science degree in Physiology from University College Dublin, Ireland in 1991 and his medical degree (MB BCh BAO) from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Medical School in 1996. After undertaking postgraduate medical training, he received an MSc in Molecular Medicine (Trinity College Dublin, 2002). In 2003 Dr Daly joined Prof. Albert Beckers at the Department of Endocrinology at the CHU de Liege, University of Liege in Belgium, where he received his doctorate in 2008 for the study of the epidemiology and genetics of pituitary adenomas. At the Beckers group, Dr Daly leads international research projects that have characterized the genetics and clinical features of the new diseases, familial isolated pituitary adenomas (FIPA) and X-linked acrogigantism (X-LAG syndrome), in addition to studies on aggressive pituitary adenomas, inherited disorders of calcium metabolism and gonadotrope signalling and the immunotherapy of parathyroid carcinoma.