Dr. Neale Weitzmann, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine’s Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipids and holds a joint Appointment as a Research Biologist that the Atlanta Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He received his PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, in medical biochemistry, and undertook a Fogarty post-doctoral fellowship at the NIH, in the NIDDK’s Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology, examining quaternary DNA structure and function. After completing this fellowship he moved to Washington University in St. Louis and performed a second post-doctoral fellowship in metabolic bone disease, and later became an Instructor in Medicine. In 2002 he joined Emory University as an Assistant Professor. His research for the past two and a half decades has focused on the immuno-skeletal interface, investigating how physiological and pathological changes within the immune system translate into collateral effects on the skeleton, a field now referred to as Osteoimmunology. His current research program focuses on the mechanisms of action, and on developing therapeutic strategies to alleviate bone loss associated with postmenopausal osteoporosis, HIV infection and immune reconstitution bone loss associated with HIV anti-retroviral therapy.
