Adrenal Cortex

BIOGRAPHY

John Newell-Price is a Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Physician at the University of Sheffield and in the Healthcare Trust. He chairs the Pituitary and Neuroendocrine Tumour Multidisciplinary Teams.His main research focus is glucocorticoids. His group has identified important aspects of epigenetic regulation of proopiomelanocortin, the key regulator of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, and now is using this information to design strategies to modify over-expression in conditions of excess hormone secretion, such as Cushing's disease. The clinical research programme has been investigating means of inhibiting excess ACTH in man and improving cortisol replacement in adrenally insufficient patients.Dr Newell-Price is an associate editor of Clinical Endocrinology and on the Editorial Board of Clinical Endocrinology and the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. He is a member of the UK Acromegaly Database Steering Committee and a Task Force Member for the American Endocrine Society's Guidelines on the Diagnosis of Cushing's Syndrome.