Dr. Antonino Belfiore was born in Catania, Italy, where he graduated in Medicine and
Surgery. He got a PhD in Endocrinology and Metabolism (University of Naples) and has
worked at the Middlesex Medical School of London (Immunology Department, 1985-
87) and at the Department of Medicine and Physiology, Mount Zion Hospital, San Francisco.He has been assistant professor of Endocrinology at the University of Catania, Department of Endocrinology, till 1998. At present he is associate professor of Endocrinology, head of the Endocrinology Unit, and director of the post-graduate School of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Catanzaro, Italy. His research has been focused on endocrine and hormone dependent tumors with interest to both clinical and translational aspects. Major achievements have concerned specific aspects of thyroid cancer as well as the role of insulin receptor isoforms as a key component of the activation of the IGF system both in thyroid and breast cancer. Studies in thyroid cancer have included diagnostic and clinical aspects of thyroid nodules, the association of thyroid cancer with hyperthyroidism, the role of cMet overexpression in papillary thyroid carcinomas and the identification of a new autocrine loop involving IGF-II and isoform A of the insulin receptor that is activated in thyroid cancer and is related to tumor progression. |
