Derek LeRoith

Derek LeRoith is an endocrinologist, originally from South Africa, and working for the past two decades in the United States. He is a Professor of Medicine and the current Chief of the Hilda and J. Lester Gabrilove, M.D. Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease and Director of the Metabolism Institute of the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. He is an international expert in insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1).

LeRoith was the first to demonstrate the link between insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and cancer.

Honors and awards

1963 Medal for Physiology 1966 Medal for Obstetrics and Gynecology 1973 Bronte Stewart Award for Ph.D. Thesis 1996 British Endocrine Society Transatlantic Medal 1996 The Herman O. Mosenthal Memorial Lecture 2004 The Yogesh C. Patel Memorial Lecture 2008 Dell Fisher Visiting professor, UCLA

Books Partial list: Diabetes Mellitus: a Fundamental and Clinical text, Derek LeRoith (Editor), Simeon I. Taylor (Editor) and Jerrold M Olefsky (Editor), 2003 (Third Edition), Molecular Biology of Diabetes, Part I: Autoimmunity and Genetics; Insulin Synthesis and Secretion, Boris Draznin (Editor), Derek LeRoith (Editor), 1994, Molecular Biology of Diabetes, Part II: Insulin Action, Effects on Gene Expression and Regulation, and Glucose Transport, Boris Draznin (Editor), Derek LeRoith (Editor), 1994, Insulin-like Growth Factors: Molecular and Cellular Aspects, Derek LeRoith (Author), 1991, Controversies in Treating Diabetes: Clinical and Research Aspects (Contemporary Endocrinology), Derek LeRoith (Editor), Aaron I. Vinik (Editor), 2008,

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