Biography

Dr LeRoith is the director of research in the division of endocrinology, diabetes, and bone disease at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York. Dr LeRoith started working at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1979 in the field of endocrinology and diabetes. He was promoted to diabetes branch chief at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, a position he held until 2005. From 2005 to 2010, he was director of the division of endocrinology and director of the Metabolism Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr LeRoith’s research has focused on the role of insulin and insulin-like growth factors in normal physiology and disease states, including obesity, T2DM, and cancer. He has utilized genetic manipulation of mouse genes to create mouse models of T2DM to study metabolism, complications, and therapies. More recently, Dr LeRoith has been studying the pathophysiologic links between cancer and obesity and diabetes. Dr LeRoith has published more than 600 original research and review articles on these topics and has edited a number of textbooks on diabetes, including one in its third edition. Dr LeRoith is also editor-in-chief of Growth Hormone & IGF Research and Endocrinology & Metabolism Clinics of North America, and associate editor of Diabetes Care and Hormone and Metabolic Research.

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