Henry Kronenberg (fl. 2000s) is an American physician and academic. As of 2006[update] he is Division Head of Endocrinology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA and a Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. He is noted for his work on parathyroid hormone and the use of genetic mouse models to understand the role of parathyroid hormone and parathyroid hormone-related protein in the regulation of bone formation and remodeling.
Dr. Kronenberg has made a series of fundamental observations of importance to the understanding of how several peptides regulate the formation and remodeling of bone. These include the cloning of a cDNA for parathyroid hormone,[1] the identification of a role for parathyroid hormone-related protein in endochondral ossification through indian hedgehog (IHH) activation,[2][3] and studies that identified a role for parathyroid hormone in the regulation of the bone marrow stem cell niche.[4]
He has served as the President of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. He is currently a member of the Board of Advisors of the Rolanette and Berdon Lawrence Bone Disease Program of Texas.