Discussions will include experimental cancer treatment, transcriptional regulation of thyroid-specific transcription factors, thyroid cancer in Belarus after the Chernobyl accident, and thyroid hormone action.
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He performed classic studies of thyroid function in primitive chordates and early vertebrates, analysis of thyroglobulin synthesis in these animals and in mammals and the description of an even larger protein, the 27S iodoprotein. His department at the University of Naples became one of the world's foremost centers of thyroid research, and his work was the impetus for the development of a thyroid cell culture system now used throughout the world. Salvatore came to NIH in 1962 and again in 1971 as a visiting scientist. He was dean of the Second School of Medicine of the University of Naples from 1981 to 1994 and promoted changes in the curriculum that brought Italy's medical teaching up to modern European standards. In 1987, he was appointed president of the Zoological Station in Naples and modernized the famous institution.