International Journal of Oncology

Pioneered studies that elucidated the potent effects of stress on the organism at the behavioral, neuroendocrine, cellular and molecular levels, and performed groundbreaking research on human development, particularly in early life and the years of puberty and adolescence.Dr Chrousos has performed a body of influential original experimental, translational and clinical studies on the universally pathogenic impact of a chronically activated stress system on human health.He identified and functionally characterized the molecular mechanisms underlying the pervasive stress hormone-mediated effects of chronically disrupted homeostasis on human mental and somatic health.His discoveries of the pathogenic mechanisms…