| Márta Korbonits | |
| Birth Place: | Budapest Hungary |
| Workplaces: | Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry Queen Mary University of London |
| Alma Mater: | Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry |
| Thesis Title: | Different aspects of the neuroregulation of the growth hormone axis |
| Thesis Url: | https://search.worldcat.org/en/title/1006280319 |
| Thesis Year: | 2001 |
Márta Korbonits is a Hungarian physician, Professor of Endocrinology and deputy director of the William Harvey Research Institute at the Queen Mary University of London. She is an internationally recognised expert in pituitary tumorigenesis. She was elected President of the Society for Endocrinology and awarded the Endocrine Society's Laureate Award in 2023.
Korbonits studied medicine and completed her early training in Budapest. She was first introduced to endocrinology during her fourth year of medical school, where she was inspired by Edit Gláz.[1] [2] She moved to the United Kingdom for her specialist training, and joined Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry.[3] At Barts her medical doctorate looked at the growth of secretagogues on hypothalamic hormone release. She also completed a doctorate, which considered the mechanisms that underpin pituitary tumorigenesis. During her Medical Research Council Clinician Science Fellowship she started investigated ghrelin physiology and genetics. Her demonstration of AMPK regulation by ghrelin helped people better understand hormonal regulation of metabolism.
Korbonits has dedicated her career to translational medicine: using clinical questions to design research experiments and using the outcomes of medical research for new diagnostics and treatment. She has focussed on understanding the mechanisms that underpin familial pituitary adenomas and tumorigenesis. She discovered the genetic link for the AIP ("Irish Giant") gene.[4] [5]
Alongside her research, Korbonits is a clinician who cares for patients with endocrine diseases.