Two Endocrinology Fellows named 2026 ABSMR Young Investigator Award Recipients

Pictured: Minhao Zhou, Clarence Chu, Natasha Hunt, Emma Duncan (President, ASBMR), Jeayoung Park
Pictured: Minhao Zhou, Clarence Chu, Natasha Hunt, Emma Duncan (President, ASBMR), Jeayoung Park

Congratulations to four UCSF trainees, including two of our Endocrinology Fellows, on being named 2026 Young Investigator Award recipients by the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR)!

Please join us in congratulating these exceptional awardees on their work:

  • Jeayoung Park, MD, endocrinology fellow (mentors: Kelly Wentworth, MD, and Edward Hsiao, MD, PhD): "Identifying Novel Therapies for Fibrous Dysplasia of the Bone Using a Transcriptomics-Based Computational Drug Repurposing Strategy"
  • Clarence Chu, MD, endocrinology fellow (mentor: Anne Schafer, MD): "Serum biomarkers and histomorphometric bone turnover in adults with type 1 diabetes and chronic kidney disease"
  • Minhao Zhou, PhD, musculoskeletal radiology postdoctoral scholar: "Time-lapse HR-pQCT Reveals Rapid Cortical Bone Loss With Localized Periosteal Apposition and Sub-periosteal Circumferential Pore Formation in Older Men"
  • Natasha Hunt, bioengineering/orthopedics PhD candidate: "Aged-related Impairment of Bone Matrix can be Transferred to Young Mice through the Gut Microbiota"
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Endocrinology and Metabolism