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Nino Salvatores contribution to scientific collaboration between Europe and the US in endocrinology
Giancarlo Vecchio and Jacob Robbins
He encouraged young investigators to work abroad, mainly at the NIH, but elsewhere too
On the 7th and 8th September, 2007, an international meeting commemorating the 10th anniversary of the death of a remarkable endocrine scientist, scholar and teacher took place in Naples, Italy. Gaetano (Nino) Salvatore was born in Naples, where his career was focused, but his influence was worldwide. Former colleagues from the US, UK, Belgium, France and Japan joined the many Italian scientists and students who gathered in the Aula Magna Gaetano Salvatore of the University of Naples Federico II to celebrate his achievements. The meeting title was Thyroid and Beyond to stress his multifaceted scientific interests.
Ninos passion for endocrinology and the thyroid gland began in Paris in the late 1950s under Jean Roche and continued at the Stazione Zoologica in Naples where Nino later became President. Nino and his collaborators demonstrated the...