!!Mone Zaidi - Biography
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Mone Zaidi graduated in medicine from King George’s Medical College, India, and trained clinically at the Hammersmith Hospital, University of London, where he obtained a PhD and MD.  Professor Zaidi served as Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant at St. George’s Hospital Medical School before moving to the U.S.  After several positions of increasing prominence, he was recruited to Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where he holds an endowed chair––Mount Sinai Professorship of Clinical Medicine––and serves as Director of the Center for Translational Medicine.  Professor Zaidi has made groundbreaking discoveries on mechanisms of skeletal homeostasis in health and disease.  In 2003, his group published the first evidence for a pituitary–bone axis, a breakthrough in physiology in which pituitary hormones affect the skeleton directly.  In two recent groundbreaking papers in Nature, he found that inhibiting FSH not only increased bone mass, but also reduced body fat and prevented neurodegeneration—laying the foundation for a single FSH–blocking therapeutic to treat osteoporosis, obesity and Alzheimer’s disease.  This corpus of work was selected by Nature Medicine as one of eight “Notable Advances” in biomedicine for 2017 and was editorialized in the New York Times.  Constituting a total of over 450 publications, Professor Zaidi’s research has been funded continuously, initially by U.K.’s MRC, and since 1997, by the NIH.  Among his honors, Professor Zaidi was made Master of the American College of Physicians, received the Harrington Scholar–Innovator Award, was elected as Fellow of the American Association of Advancement of Science and of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors, won the Austrian International Research Prize, was bestowed upon with an Honorary Fellowship by the British Pharmacological Society, and received five honorary doctorates, including from the University of Connecticut, where he was the 2023 Commencement Speaker.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit mzaidi}][{ALLOW upload mzaidi}][{ALLOW comment All}]