Endocrine Society past-president Henry M. Kronenberg, MD, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), which recognizes achievement in science and provides science, engineering, and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations.
Kronenberg, who served as Endocrine Society president from 2016 to 2017, has been chief of the Endocrine Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Ma., for over 34 years and is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
His research group studies the actions of parathyroid hormone and parathyroid hormone-related protein, with a particular emphasis on bone development, bone biology, calcium homeostasis, and the roles of osteoblast-lineage cells in hematopoiesis. His biggest accomplishment is bringing molecular biology to the bone and mineral field with the cloning of the parathyroid hormone. Kronenberg’s laboratory in recent years has used several genetically altered strains of mice to establish the role of signaling by the PTH/PTHrP receptor in bone.
Aside from his presidential term, Kronenberg has served on many other Society committees over the years, most notably as vice president, Basic Science, and as the Endocrine Society’s representative on the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Board of Directors.
In 2022, Kronenberg received the Society’s highest award, Fred Conrad Koch Lifetime Achievement Award. At the time, when he was asked about the impact the Endocrine Society had on his career, Kronenberg said that the Society was the first national society to welcome him and that from that moment he has relied on the Society to make him aware of new ways of thinking about endocrinology, both at the basic and clinical levels.
“The annual meeting and journals, in particular, have defined current endocrinology for me,” Kronenberg continued. “Equally importantly, the Endocrine Society has been the vehicle for my meeting people in the field from whom I have learned a lot and gained lasting friendships.”
Kronenberg joins 119 members and 24 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. foreign associates recently elected to NAS in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. The NAS is a private, nonprofit institution that was established under a congressional charter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863.
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