Krishna Chatterjee
Krishna Chatterjee is a Professor of Endocrinology in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.Education
Chatterjee was educated at the Wolfson College, Oxford where he was awarded Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degrees.Chatterjee is distinguished for his discoveries of genetic disorders of thyroid gland formation, regulation of hormone synthesis and hormone action, which have advanced fundamental knowledge of the hypothalamic–pituitary–thyroid axis. He has identified dominant negative inhibition by defective nuclear receptors as a common mechanism in thyroid hormone resistance and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma -mediated insulin resistance. He has shown how deficiency of human selenocysteine-containing proteins causes a multisystem disease, including disordered thyroid hormone metabolism. He seeks to translate such understanding into better diagnosis and therapy of both rare and common thyroid conditions.
