Endocrine Abstracts

Pilar Santisteban is a Full Professor at the Biomedical Research Institute of the Spanish Council of Research, Madrid, Spain. Among other responsibilities, she has been a Vice President of the Spanish Endocrine Society and a member of the Executive Committee of the European Thyroid Association (ETA). Currently, she is the manager of the Spanish National Grants Program, the Spanish Member of the Joint Research Center of the European Union, and since October 2015, she is the president-elected of the ETA.

She is a specialist in molecular biology of the thyroid gland, focused on deciphering the role of thyroid transcription factors and signals that control differentiation and proliferation in development and cancer. Her work was pioneer describing the mechanism by which BRAF represses iodide uptake and promotes metastases. Recently, her laboratory, using the next-generation sequencing, has described genes that confer thyroid cancer susceptibility and miRNAs that target genes involved in Iodide metabolism and invasiveness. Her work tries to combine basic research and its clinical application.