Antonino Belfiore

Biography

Antonino Belfiore obtained his MD degree at University of Catania in 1977. He is specialist in Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases (University of Catania) and Nuclear Medicine (University of Padoa). He completed a PhD in Endocrine and Metabolic Sciences (University of Naples) and has been working as researcher at the University College of London, Clinical Immunology Department (1985-87), and at the University of San Francisco, Diabetes Research Branch (various periods between 1989 and 1995). He has been assistant Professor in Endocrinology at the University of Catania from 1986 to 1998, and Associate Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Catanzaro from 1998 to 2006. Currently, he is Professor of Endocrinology and head of the Endocrine Unit at the University of Catanzaro. He has a long-standing interest in the epidemiology, clinical aspects and biology of thyroid cancer. Current main research interests of his group concern the study of the IGF system dysregulation in human cancer, with particular focus on the role of the insulin receptor, its isoforms, and molecular modulators of these receptors in cancer.

Research Interest

Insulin ResistanceCancerIGF-Itarget therapyIGF-I receptorIGF-IIInsulin receptorIR isoform Athyroid cancerprostate cancerbreast cancerEndocrine related cancersendocrine oncologyhormones and cancerWnt1 Protein