Endocrine Abstracts

Kenneth S Korach, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA Abstract

Kenneth S Korach is the Program Director of the Environmental Disease and Medicine Program, Chief of the Laboratory of Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. He received his PhD in Endocrinology from the Medical College of Georgia in 1974 where he characterized biochemical properties of estrogen receptors in the pituitary and hypothalamus. Ken was a Postdoctoral Biological Chemistry and a Ford Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School with the late Professor Lewis Engel where he characterized the human placental estradiol dehydrogenase. Ken joined the NIEHS in 1976 where he has headed a research group investigating the basic mechanisms of estrogen hormone action in reproductive tract and bone tissues with an application towards understanding how hormonally active environmental estrogens influence physiological processes. Ken was an Editor and past Editor-in-Chief for Endocrinology. He holds multiple adjunct Professorships in the Department of Molecular Toxicology as well as Biochemistry at North Carolina State University, in Pharmacology at the University of North Carolina Medical School and in Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at Duke University Medical School. He was appointed into the Senior Biomedical Research Service (SBRS) at NIH. He is the recipient of the National Institutes of Health outstanding performance awards, National Institutes of Health Merit Awards, numerous Keynote Meeting Lectureships, the Medical College of Georgia Distinguished Alumnus Award, the Edwin B. Astwood Award from the Endocrine Society, the Keith Harrison Lecture Award from the Australian Endocrine Society.