Roland Baron

Biography

Roland Baron is professor at the Harvard Medical School, Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Head of the Division of Bone and Mineral Research and Chair of Oral Medicine at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine since January 2008. He received his DDS and PhD degrees from the Medical School at the University of Paris, France. From 1977 to 2007, Roland Baron was a professor in the departments of Medicine, Orthopaedics and Cell Biology at Yale University School of Medicine. From 1994 to 2002, he held the position of Vice President and Head of the Bone Diseases Group at Hoechst Marion Roussel and then Aventis. In 2002, he founded ProSkelia, a small pharmaceutical company devoted to the discovery and development of new drugs for bone and hormonal diseases. He has held the positions of President and Chief Scientific Officer of ProSkelia and then ProStrakan, until April 2006. He is the founder and past Editor-in-Chief of BONE, the Official Journal of the International Bone and Mineral Society until 2006. Roland Baron has published over 330 scientific papers in the field of bone biology and bone diseases.

Research Interest

Oral Medicine