The endocrine system

If you skew the endocrine system, you lose the pathways to self. When endocrine patterns change, it alters the way you think and feel. One shift in the pattern tends to trip another.
Hilary Mantel

 I became interested in endocrine tumors already as a student when I studied the prognostic significance of different parameters in patients with papillary thyroid cancer. Later even studies of the parathyroid glands, the adrenal glands and the endocrine intestinal tumors followed. Although endocrine tumors are often small and benign, they can be of great clinical importance because of the increased hormone production.

I learned early that genes play a major role in the development of endocrine tumors but I could not imagine how much when I started to learn molecular genetics over a 3-year period in the United States. For example, until 2000 it was assumed that about 10 % of all tumors originating from the adrenal medulla (pheochromocytoma) are hereditary. Today we know that probably at least 30 % are hereditary.

First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.
Daniel Nathans

To identify genes involved in the pathogenesis of these tumors may help to develop new therapeutic modalities.

Publications

Selected publications

Rodrigo A. Toledo, Nelly Burnichon, Alberto Cascon, Diana E. Benn, Jean-Pierre Bayley, Jenny Welander, Carli M. Tops, Helen Firth, Trish Dwight, Tonino Ercolino, Massimo Mannelli, Giuseppe Opocher, Roderick Clifton-Bligh, Oliver Gimm, Eamonn R. Maher, Mercedes Robledo, Anne-Paule Gimenez-Roqueplo, Patricia L. M. Dahia (2017)

Nature Reviews Endocrinology , Vol.13 , s.233-247 Continue to DOI

Latest publications

2023

Research

About me

CV

  • 2010 Professor of Surgery, Linköping University
  • 2009 Associate Professor of Surgery (Sweden)
  • 2004 Associate Professor of Surgery (Germany)
  • 2003 Specialist in Surgery (Germany)
  • 1999-2000 Post-doc, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH (USA)
  • 1997-1998 Post-doc, DFCI, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (USA)
  • 1995 Dissertation, Medical School of Hannover (Germany)
  • 1998-1994 Medical student, Medical School of Hannover (Germany)

Teaching 

  • I teach medical students in anatomy and the care of acute ill surgical patients

Distinctions

  • “Kandidat kork-priset”, spring term 2014

Assignments

Network

  • Member of LiU Cancer

Collaboration 

  • Collaboration with professor Peter Söderkvist (IKE), professor Anders Persson (IMH) and professor Kajsa Uvdal (IFM) at Linköping University

Organisation