Associate Professor Paul Baldock

Associate Professor Paul Baldock completed his PhD in Human Physiology at the University of Adelaide in 2001. He joined the Osteoporosis and Bone Biology Division at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and held a postdoctoral position until he was appointed Head of the Skeletal Metabolism Group in 2005. He moved to the Neuroscience Division in 2008 before returning to the Osteoporosis and Bone Biology Division in 2013 to take up his position as an ARC Future Fellow.

Paul has a sustained record of research excellence, as detailed by prizes from a number of skeletal and general organisations. In 1996, he was awarded the Campion Ma Playoust Prize for Best Researcher under 30 from the Australian Society from Medical Research’s. Between 2004 and 2006 he was awarded a total of 4 Young Investigator Awards from the International (IBMS) and the American (ASBMR) Societies for Bone and Mineral Research. In 2006 he received a Fellowship from the International Human Frontier Science Program, and in 2013 was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship.

Paul has been recognised as one of the fundamental contributors to this rapidly evolving field, being invited to present plenary symposia at the 2 most prestigious bone meetings (IBMS-2008 and ASBMR-2009), as well as invited symposia at broader endocrine meetings in the US (The Pituitary Society), Europe (International Symposium on Endocrinology and Metabolism, International Conference on Children’s Bone Health) and Asia Pacific (Asia Pacific Paediatric Endocrinologist Society). He has been on the Program Organising Committee of international Bone conferences (IBMS), and is currently on the Organising Committee for the Annual meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society and the Australian Endocrine Society.

He envisages that his research work will redefine the regulatory influences both to and importantly, from bone and contribute to a new generation of therapeutic tools to modulate bone mass, as well as obesity and diabetes.