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Professor Marta Korbonits

Consultant at St Bartholomew's Hospital

Márta Korbonits, MD, PhD, DSc, FRCP is Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, is a graduate from the Semmelweis Medical School, Budapest and working at Barts since 1991. 

She has a PhD in neuroendocrinology and was a Medical Research Council Clinician Scientist Fellow working on ghrelin and the hormonal regulation of the metabolic enzyme AMP-activated protein kinase and on the pathogenesis of pituitary tumours.

Her current clinical and research interests include endocrine tumorigenesis, especially the genetic origin of pituitary adenomas and other endocrine tumour syndromes. She works on both the clinical characterisation as well as molecular aspects of pituitary diseases and leads a large international consortium to study these rare conditions. 

She shares her time between clinical patient care, clinical research and laboratory based research as well as teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She is a recipient of several national and international awards for her work on pituitary adenomas and she is currently President of the Society of Endocrinology.

She is Deputy Chief Editor of Endocrine-Related Cancer. In 2019 she has been elected as a Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Treatments and procedures

  • Pituitary diseases
  • Endocrine genetics

Research interests

  • Research on pituitary adenomas, genetics of endocrine tumours and hormonal regulation of metabolism.

Leadership roles

  • Head of the Wellcome-funded clinical training fellowship programme HARP
  • Co-Head of the Clinical Academic Training School at Barts
  • President of the Society of Endocrinology
  • Deputy Director of the William Harvey Research Institute
Speciality
Languages Spoken English
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