Stavros Manolagas, M.D, Ph.D.
Stavros Manolagas, M.D, Ph.D., is a distinguished professor of medicine at UAMS and founder and director of the Center for Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Disease Disorders– one of the largest and longest-funded osteoporosis research centers in the world. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester. He joined UAMS in December 1993, after nine years at the University of California at San Diego and six years at Indiana University. He has spent over 40 years in the study of bone and mineral metabolism and the interactions between the endocrine, hematolymphopoietic, and skeletal systems.
His research interests include vitamin D metabolism, interplay among hormones, cytokines, the hematopoietic/immune system and bone, the cellular and molecular mechanisms of the pathogenesis of osteoporosis, mechanisms of steroid hormone receptor action and the discovery of anabolic bone therapies.
His scholarly contributions have been recognized over the years with induction to the Association of American Physicians in 1996; the AlliedSignal award for research on aging in 1999; the inaugural Louis V. Avioli Award of ASBMR, 2000; a Doctor Honoris Causa from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, 2007; the International Bone and Mineral Society (IBMS) D. Harold Copp award, 2013; the William S. Middleton Award of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for achieving international acclaim for research accomplishments in areas of prime importance to VA’s research mission, 2016; and the William F. Neuman Award – the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research’s oldest and most prestigious honor in 2017.