Bianco to Lead Division of Endocrinology,
Diabetes and Metabolism

The challenge and excitement of an opportunity to lead the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism in the Department of Medicine at the Miller School lured Antonio C. Bianco, M.D., Ph.D., from Harvard to South Florida. And the fact that he’s now living at the gateway to Latin America makes it an even better match for the native of Brazil.

“Miami is such an international city, it very much reminds me of living in São Paulo,” says Bianco. “I feel very comfortable here, plus we are much closer to family in Miami than we were in Boston, and that’s definitely a plus.”

Bianco received his medical degree from Santa Casa School of Medicine in São Paulo in 1983 and his Ph.D. in human physiology from the University of São Paulo in 1988. He served on the faculty of the University of São Paulo for 15 years before coming to the United States in 2002 to take a position at Harvard Medical School, where he most recently served as chief of the thyroid section at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Bianco is internationally recognized as an expert on thyroid disease and has made outstanding research contributions into the molecular process that can activate or inactivate thyroid hormone.

“I have plans to develop the division to expand clinical services and scientific research across the whole spectrum of endocrine diseases, such as thyroid, type 2 diabetes, and neuroendocrinology,” says Bianco.

Bianco’s entire laboratory and research staff will also be moving to Miami to continue their work on deiodinases, the enzymes that are responsible for the activation and inactivation of the thyroid hormone. The groundbreaking scientific work has won Bianco two prestigious awards: the American Thyroid Association’s Van Meter Award and the LATS Prize of the Latin American Thyroid Society.