Endocrine Abstracts

Raul M Luque is an Associate Professor of Cell Biology at the University of Cordoba (UCO), Spain. Dr. Luque graduated (1997) and obtained his PhD (2003) in Biological Sciences from the UCO and completed his postdoctoral training at the Department of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago (USA). He currently serves as Co-Head of the Hormones and Cancer Research Group of the Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology of the UCO and the ‘Maimonides’ Biomedical Research Institute. His research over the last 15 years has been focused on the regulation of pituitary cell types by somatostatin, cortistatin, ghrelin, insulin and IGF-I and on the molecular biology of these peptides, their receptors and signaling pathways in health and disease. Dr. Luque has published over 100 scientific articles and 25 book chapters and has contributed over 200 congress communications. He has supervised 13 doctoral theses. He is a member of the Editorial Board and has served as ad hoc reviewer of several journals including Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Journal of Endocrinology.