Mone Zaidi, MD, PhD, left, accepting the honor in February from Steven Chu, PhD, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Nobel laureate in Physics.
Mone Zaidi, MD, PhD, Director of the Mount Sinai Bone Program, and Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. Dr. Zaidi, who accepted the award on Saturday, February 15, at the AAAS conference in Seattle, Washington, was selected for his seminal contributions to endocrinology and skeletal biology, particularly the discovery of pituitary-metabolic circuits that regulate body fat, bone mass, and metabolism.
The lifetime honor was awarded to 443 scientists, of whom 35, including Dr. Zaidi, are in medical sciences. He says, “I am grateful that the research conducted by my laboratory colleagues is appreciated as having an impact on the scientific community.”