Steven Teitelbaum, MD

Steven Teitelbaum, MD, graduated from Washington University School of Medicine and completed his clinical training at this institution and NYU. He holds the Messing Chair in Pathology and Immunology and is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Bone and Mineral Diseases. He has published in excess of 300 papers, many in the most competitive journals. Dr. Teitelbaum’s laboratory focuses on the mechanisms of osteoclast bone resorption and has recently extended his interests to the interactions between bone, fat, and energy metabolism. He is a world-leading bone biologist and mentor, having trained more than 70 undergraduate, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows, a number of whom now hold prestigious positions and enjoy international reputations as skeletal biologists.