Curriculum
DR. GARY GORDON
Gordon Research Institute
DRA. ADRIANA DUSSO
Curriculum
DRA. ADRIANA DUSSO
Dr Dusso is currently a Senior Investigator of the Institute of Biomedical Research and the Hospital Universitario Arnau de Villanova, at the University of Lleida in Lleida, Spain. Dr Dusso is a Suma Cum Laude graduate in Biochemistry from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario in Argentina. After completion of her residency in Clinical Biochemistry in the Hospital Nacional del Centenario, she joined the Department of Biological Chemistry in the School of Medicine, where she obtained her Ph.D in Biochemistry in 1984, while working as an Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry for medical students. In 1985, she received a post-doctoral scholarship to join Dr. Slatopolsky’s laboratory in the Renal Division at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, USA, and progressed through the ranks to the position of Research Associate Professor she held until September 2010. She has published more than 130 peer reviewed articles, invited reviews and book chapters on her research work on vitamin D in kidney disease, including the molecular bases of the abnormalities in vitamin D metabolism and actions, on mechanisms for the selective actions of calcitriol analogs, and on the pathogenesis of parathyroid hyperplasia and vitamin D resistance. Dr. Dusso has trained numerous USA and International Nephrology fellows in basic and translational research, directed under-graduate and Ph. D thesis work, and has been invited as a key note speaker to present an update on her research work to more than 70 International Conferences. She has also served as invited Faculty in post-graduate courses on Vitamin D for USA Endocrine fellows at Columbia University in New York, and in several under-graduate and post-doctoral courses in Argentina, Italy, and Spain. She serves as a reviewer for several scientific journals. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Kidney International and of the panel of experts for the 2013 update of the KDIGO guidelines.
DR. MARCO RUGIERO
Novel insights in the therapy of cancer: ultrasound-guided immunotherapy with vitamin D binding protein-derived macrophage activating factor (GcMAF) made lethal to tumour cells.
DR. PAUL CLAYTON
Dietary shift has lead to impaired innate immune function, and this in turn underlies the increases in allergy and cancer seen since 1950. It also reduces resistance to infection, and encourages antibiotic resistance. These negative changes can be reversed using appropriate pharmaconutritional tools.
