Sebastiano Filetti MD

Sebastiano Filetti, MD is a full professor of Internal Medicine at Sapienza University of Rome. Dr. Filetti attended and completed his medical training at the Catania University. He also completed a one year Fellowship in Nuclear Medicine at the Brussels Free-University and in Metabolism Department at the London University Middlesex Hospital. He joined University of California San Francisco as Fulbright-Hays fellow and thereafter appointed as assistant professor and later as Associate Professor in 1985. He is member of the American Thyroid Association since 1980 and Endocrine Society since 1983.

Dr. Filetti's current clinical interests include endocrine and thyroid cancer, diabetes and endocrine/metabolic diseases. Dr. Filetti’s research interests focus on thyroid tumorigenesis and the strategic implications of the genetic and epigenetic abnormalities in endocrine tumors. In particular he is actively involved in research focusing on the identification and clinical validation of thyroid cancer biomarkers to achieve a better cancer risk stratification. He is also investigating the genetic basis of familial and sporadic thyroid cancer. Dr. Filetti is currently a principal investigator in several clinical trials concerning new target-therapy drugs.