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CO-DIRECTOR AND CELL CORE DIRECTOR Mark Horowitz, Ph.D., He is a Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, and he has been at Yale for 23 years. He has been interested for nearly two decades in the interactions among the skeletal, hematopoietic and immune systems and is internationally recognized for his work in cytokine biology and signal transduction and its role in bone metabolism. |
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PILOT AND FEASABILITY PROGRAM
Dr. Caren Gundberg, directs the Pilot and Feasability Program. She is a Professor in the Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation and has been at Yale for 14 years. Her research interests focus on osteocalcin, the vitamin K-dependent protein synthesized in bone. She has an international reputation in the development and chemistry of non-invasive measures of bone turnover. MOLECULAR CORE William Philbrick, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Molecular Core. He is a molecular and cellular biologist with extensive experience in gene expression systems both in cultured cells and in animal models. Bill has been actively involved in training others in the use of the methodologies offered by the Core for the past 15 years. He currently also serves as the Director of the Molecular Core of the Yale Diabetes Endocrine Research Center. |
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PHYSIOLOGY CORE Thomas O. Carpenter, M.D., is Director of the Physiology Core. He is a pediatric endocrinologist with long-standing interest in vitamin and mineral metabolism. He has investigated the regulation of phosphate homeostasis in humans and other mammalian systems throughout his career, with particular attention to the study of clinical disorders of calcium and phosphate metabolism. He has extensive experience in cell culture studies, as well as both animal and human investigation. He has recently focused attention on magnesium's role in the acquisition of skeletal mass. He has published several important papers on the effects of magnesium depletion on bone mass in experimental animals. |
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