Bone Abstracts

Biographical Details

Dr Lynda F Bonewald is a University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC) Curators Professor, the Lefkowitz Professor of Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, and Director of the Mineralized Tissue/Bone Biology Research Program at the UMKC School of Dentistry, Director of the UMKC Center of Excellence in the Study of Dental and Musculoskeletal Tissues and UMKC Vice Chancellor for Clinical and Translational Research. Dr L F Bonewald was educated at the University of Texas, Austin, where she earned a BA in Biology and at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, where she received a PhD in Immunology/Microbiology. She is Past-President of the ASBMR and is best known for her work in the study of osteocyte biology and function.