Ronenn Roubenoff

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About Ronenn Roubenoff

Dr. Roubenoff received his MD from Northwestern University, and trained in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was Chief Resident in Medicine. He completed concurrent fellowships in Rheumatology and in Clinical Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins, receiving a Master of Health Science degree. He then trained in Nutrition at Tufts University with Irwin Rosenberg, MD, and in Immunology with Charles Dinarello, MD. He was Chief of the Nutrition, Exercise Physiology, and Sarcopenia (NEPS) Laboratory, and Director of Human Studies, both at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Nutrition and Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts and Tufts Medical Center. Dr. Roubenoff was Senior Director of Molecular Medicine at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc, in Cambridge, MA, where he directed research on biomarkers and personalized medicine. He then was Sr. Director, Immunology Research and Development, at Biogen Idec, Inc, where he led the Translational Medicine and Early Development efforts for the Immunology group. In 2009, he was appointed Global Translational Medicine Head for Musculoskeletal Diseases at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, MA. In 2014, he relocated to Novartis headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, returning to Cambridge in 2021. He has published 283 articles and 208 abstracts (Sept 2021); h-index 100, 55 since 2016 [Google Scholar, March 2021]; ResearchGate score 47.98 [97.5 %ile]). ORCID ID Specialties: Translational medicine Rheumatology Nutrition Epidemiology Drug Development