Romana Netea-Maier
Romana Netea-Maier (1969) is an endocrinologist and full professor. She combines her clinical work with innovative research focussing on the pathogenesis of endocrine tumors, their long-term consequences, and novel healthcare concepts to improve patient care. An important part of her translational research focuses on the role of the innate immune responses in the pathogenesis of endocrine tumors and their long-term complications. She identified for the first time the proteome characteristic for the thyroid tumors, described the metabolic dysfunction of innate immune cells in thyroid cancer and the changes in myelopoiesis induced by the malignant thyroid process. She is currently the PI for the first study investigating mechanism-based drug repurposing in thyroid cancer within the REPO4EU Euro-Global platform (https://repo4.eu/) funded by Horizon EU. Furthermore, she leads a national multicenter prospective study investigating shared decision making in patients with thyroid cancer.