Hustle and bustle at ICE/ENDO 2014

I arrived at McCormick Place to find all the usual hustle and bustle associated with ENDO. I queued, picked up my chic (!) backpack and rushed off to hang my poster. I also had a chance to take a peak at the history of endocrinology timeline as the Endocrine Society approaches it's centenary. 

ENDO2014 was officially kicked off yesterday by Robert Lefkowitz who gave us an insightful tour through his lifetime's research on seven transmembrane receptors. His more recent discoveries on B-arrestins were fascinating. I bumped into Sam Mirczuk, Chair of the YE committee in this session :)

John Newell-Price displayed the quality of clinical Endocrinology in the UK during the 'Acromegaly: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline' session, with an informative, interactive case presentation. Sadly, John Wass wasn't able to make it to ENDO this year and get involved in this session.

Talking of John Wass, I'm sure he would've enjoyed the session 'The Medical and Cultural History of Testosterone and the Testes' given by Eberhard Nieschlag. This covered the castrati, Berthold, Sertoli and Charles-Edouard Brown-Sequard through to the modern day.

Then it was time for some basic science with the GPCR structure and function session. Some of the speakers were quite nervous but there was a good talk on a cAMP bioassay.

Time for lunch and the EXPO! I visited a friend's (Valerie Babinsky, Oxford) poster and also lots of stands including the SfE stand which was really busy.

A revision of Paediatric Endocrinology with a session on Precocious Puberty was next on the timetable for me.

Looking forward to Sunday, I am planning on attending meet-the-professor sessions on Cushings Syndrome: New Approaches and gynaecomastia, Reproductive Health in CAH and genetics to clinical trials in Pituitary Disease. 

Dr Angela Rogers