Dr. ALBERTO FALCHETTI

Endocrinologist and Medical Geneticist, Bone and Mineral Metabolism, and Rare Bone, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy. 1987-88 Visiting Fellow, Metabolic Diseases Branch, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA. 1990-91: Post-doctoral Associate, Genetic Dept., Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. 2006: Master's Degree Diploma "Disorders of Mineral Metabolism: from gene to cure", University of Florence, Italy. 2009: Lifetime Career Achievement Award of the Italian Society of Osteoporosis and Mineral Metabolism and Disease of the Skeleton (SIOMMMS). Clinical research in bone and mineral metabolism diseases and rare skeletal diseases, and endocrine tumors, MEN1, MEN2, VHL. Basic experimental studies on the role of miRNAs and telomerase activity in sporadic and inherited endocrine tumor pathogenesis. Pathophysiology of Paget’s disease of bone and diabetic osteopathy. Clinically rare bone diseases and a project regarding glycogen storage disease type I and bone: Identification of risk factors for bone loss and fractures of which he is the principal investigator of the GLYBONE project AIFA-2016-02364539. Member of the Italian Society of Endocrinology, SIOMMMS, ASBMR, Faculty of 1000 Medicine, Association of Endocrinologists (AME the Italian chapter of AACE), Forum in Bone and Mineral Research, Italian Study Group on Bone Diseases (GISMO), and Italian Group of Bone Interdisciplinary Specialists (G.I.Bis). President of Forum in Bone and Mineral Research.