Dopamine: Endocrine and Oncogenic Functions

About Nira Ben-Jonathan

Dr Nira Ben-Jonathan is Professor of Cancer Biology and Internal Medicine at the University of Cincinnati Medical School. She has published over 175 scholarly papers and reviews edited a book - Catecholamines as Hormone Regulators - and contributed 14 chapters to medical textbooks and encyclopedias. She trained as a neuro-endocrinologist and endocrine physiologist and has focused her studies on prolactin dopamine endocrine disruptors and other hormones as they affect brain pituitary and peripheral tissues using cells animal models and human tissues. More recently her focus has shifted to the role of hormones and signaling pathways in breast cancer and head and neck cancer. She has also been studying adipose tissue and human obesity. Dr Ben-Jonathan has served on many journal editorial boards and committees of scientific societies reviewed manuscripts for dozens of journals. In 1992 she was elected chairman of the Gordon Research Conference on Prolactin. She has also been elected as a Fellow of the AAAS and the Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. The University of Cincinnati awarded her the Rieveschl Award for Outstanding Scientific Research. She was selected to the Edward Merker Lectureship in Translational Endocrinology by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York.