Distinguished Investigator
Mayo Foundation
Sundeep Khosla, MD
Research Professor of Medicine & Physiology
Dr. Francis Chucker and Nathan Landow
Associate Director for Research
College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
Biography:
Dr. Sundeep Khosla is the Dr. Francis Chucker and Nathan Landow Research Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Mayo Foundation Distinguished Investigator and Associate Director for Research at the College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic. Dr. Khosla received his A.B. degree from Harvard College and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He was subsequently a resident in Internal Medicine and a fellow in Endocrinology at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
In 1988, he moved to the Mayo Clinic, where his research interests include mechanisms of postmenopausal and age-related bone loss, sex steroid regulation of bone metabolism and osteoblast/stem cell biology. Dr. Khosla has served as Chair of the NIH SBDD Study Section and has been appointed to the Council of the National Institute on Aging from 2007-2010. He has received numerous awards and honors for his work, including the Frederic C. Bartter Award for Clinical Investigation from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, the Innovation Award from the National Osteoporosis Foundation, and election to the ASCI and AAP.
He has been elected President of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research for 2010-2011. He is also Associate Editor of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research and has served, or is serving, as a member of the editorial boards for the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Bone, and Endocrine Reviews.