Rossella Elisei

EDUCATION:
July 1977 Baccalaureate ("Maturità Scientifica") (60/60), Liceo Scientifico F. Enriquez, Livorno, Italy
April 3, 1985 M.D. degree (magna cum laude), University of Pisa, School of Medicine, Pisa, Italy
July 9, 1988 Specialty degree in Endocrinology (magna cum laude), University of Pisa, Postgraduate School of Endocrinology, Pisa, Italy.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:
January 1982-April 1985: Student fellow, Istituto di Endocrinologia, Metodologia Clinica e Medicina del Lavoro, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
April 1985- December 1988: Medical Internship, Istituto di Endocrinologia, Metodologia Clinica e Medicina del Lavoro, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
January 1991-August 2001: Funzionario Tecnico VIII livello (equivalent to "Assistant Researcher"), Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
August 2001 to December 2008: University Researcher at the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
December 2008 to present: Associate Professor of Endocrinology at the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.

RESEARCH TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE IN FOREIGN INSTITUTIONS:
January 1989-December 1990: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the I.R.I.B.H.N (Istitute de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie Humaine et Nucleaire), Endocrinology Branch, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Free University of Bruxelles), Bruxelles, Belgium.
March 1995-June 1995: Postdoctoral Assistant, Division of Endocrinology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center/UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
July 1995-June 1997: Postdoctoral Assistant, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
January 1998 Active participation to the course “Current techniques in radiation mutagenesis” at the Department of Radiation Genetics and Chemical Mutagenesis, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands.

RESEARCH GRANTS:
1989-1991 Grant from the Italian Public Education Ministry for International collaboration with I.R.I.B.H.N of Bruxelles, 1989. Mentor: Prof. J. Dumont and Prof. G. Vassart.
1990-1991 Grant from E.E.C (European Economic Community) for International collaboration with I.R.I.B.H.N of Bruxelles, 1990. Mentors: Prof. J. Dumont and Prof. G. Vassart.
2000 to the present: Research grants (renewed by 3 years) from Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (Italian association for Cancer Research)
1999 to 2012: Research grants from Ministero della Università e della Ricerca Italiana (Italian Ministry of University and Research)
2006 to 2015 Research grants from Istituto Toscano Tumori (Tuscan Institut of Tumors)
2018-2021 Research grant from Ministero della Università e della Ricerca Italiana (Italian Ministry of University and Research)

PROFESSIONAL INTERNATIONAL AWARDS:
2006: International award for excellence in published clinical research in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. Title of the awarded publication: Radioiodine ablation of thyroid remnants after preparation with recombinant human thyrotropin in differentiated thyroid carcinoma: results of an international, randomized, controlled study. Vol 91: 926-932.
2011: The ETA (European Thyroid Association) Max Pierre Konig Poster Award in recognition of the best poster in clinical thyroidology titled: Patients with DTC who underwent radioiodine remnant ablation with low activity of 131-I either with rhTSH or after LT4 withdrawal show the same outcome after 10 years follow up.
2011: “Light of Life Foundation” international award dedicated to the best thyroid cancer researcher of the year, Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center di New York, February 7th, 2012.
2012: International award for excellence in published clinical research in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. Title of the awarded publication: The timing of total thyroidectomy in RET gene mutation carriers could be