Inside The Irish Giant:
History, Medicine,
edicine, and the
Performing Arts
Saturday 28 May
Gigantism, Genetics and History – Panelist
Professor Márta Korbonits (Endocrinologist, Barts and the London School of Medicine)
Professor Márta Korbonits graduated in medicine in Budapest and worked in the Institute of Pathophysiology for 2 years
before joining the Postgraduate Medical School for clinical training. She joined the Department of Endocrinology at St.
Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1991 and studied the hypothalamic regulation of growth hormone release with Prof. Ashley
Grossman.. She subsequently started clinical and laboratory research with growth hormone secretagogues and later with
ghrelin, which formed the basis of her MD and then PhD thesis together with studies related to pituitary tumorigenesis.
Professor Korbonits, a professor
essor of endocrinology and metabolism at Barts and the London Medical School , has a special
interest in an inherited form of pituitary tumor called familial isolated pituitary adenoma (FIPA),
(F ), in particular a type caused
by mutations in the AIP gene.
For more information please visit the Barts web: http://www.whri.qmul.ac.uk/staff/korbonits.html