In December 2024 we had the honor to welcome Professor Sabine Costagliola, the director of the Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie humaine et moléculaire (IRIBHM) at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Belgium as speaker in our LOCOTACT Lecture. In her talk "Revolutionizing Thyroid Research Through Organoids: Current Advances and Future Prospectives", Professor Costagliola provided fascinating new insights into her current work on understanding thyroid organogenesis using human pluripotent stem cell-derived thyroid gland and lung organoids, thyroid organoid -based modeling of TSH resistance as well as on very interesting advancements in understanding Thyroid tissue carcinogenesis.

We would like to thank Professor Costagliola for the great talk and the inspiring scientific discussion.