Join us for the 22nd Lawrence Family Research Scientific Retreat & Award Competition!
May 1 , 2026, 12-7:30pm
(Starts at 11am for trainees with a lunch with Dr. Zaidi and judges)
Keynote speaker:
Mone Zaidi, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
About the speaker: Dr. Zaidi has made groundbreaking discoveries on mechanisms of skeletal homeostasis in health and disease. These studies, spanning over 30 years, included the first description of calcium sensing in the osteoclast and the discovery that locally released nitric oxide acts to suppress bone cells. In 2003, Zaidi’s group published the first evidence for a pituitary–bone axis, a breakthrough in physiology in which pituitary hormones could affect the skeleton directly. In recent groundbreaking papers in Nature, he found that inhibiting FSH not only increased bone mass, but also reduced body fat and neurodegeneration–in essence, laying a firm foundation for a single anti-FSH agent to treat osteoporosis, obesity and Alzheimer’s disease.
Seminar title: From Concept to Candidate Drug for Osteoporosis, Obesity and Alzheimer’s Disease
Attendance is free, but registration is mandatory.
For question, please contact Charlotte Cherry (ccherry@bcm.edu).