Nancy Lane, M.D.
Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Rheumatology, PI at the NIH Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH), co-PI and Director of the USBJD/NIH Young Investigators Grant Writing Initiative, and co-PI of the NIH/NIDCR Regenerative Medicine Initiative, School of Medicine of the University of California, Davis, USA. nelane@ucdavis.edu
Prof. Nancy E. Lane, M.D., IAS Distinguished Scholar 2021/2022, is a distinguished professor of Medicine and Rheumatology, principal investigator at the NIH Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH), co-principal investigator and director of the USBJD/NIH Young Investigators Grant Writing Initiative, and co-principal investigator of the NIH/NIDCR Regenerative Medicine Initiative, at the School of Medicine of the University of California, Davis, USA. Prof, Lane holds a B.S. in Biochemistry (with highest honors, 1976) from the University of California, Davis, USA, and an M.D. (1980) from the University of California, San Francisco, USA. Following her medical training program, Prof. Lane joined the division of Rheumatology of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, USA, where she served as an assistant professor of Medicine (1990-1994), and an associate professor of Medicine (1995-2003). In 2005, she transitioned to the University of California, Davis, USA, where she was appointed distinguished professor of Medicine and Rheumatology, Dean’s Endowed Chair in Aging Research (2005-2020), vice chair for Research in the Department of Medicine (2005-2009), director of the Center for Healthy Aging (2005-2010), and director of the Academic Geriatric Resource Program (2005-2014). At UC Davis, she also served as the director of the Center for Musculoskeletal Health (2011-2020), director of the K12 NIH Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH, 2011-2020) where she still holds position today as a principal investigator (2020-present), and principal investigator of the NIH funded Program on Sex Differences in Musculoskeletal Diseases Across the Lifespan (2011-2020). In addition, Prof. Lane is currently the director and co-principal investigator of the NIH/USBJI young investigators program to teach junior faculty how to write grants and be successful in an academic career, and co-principal investigator of the NIH/NIDCR Regenerative Medicine C-DOCTOR initiative. Prof. Lane was president of the Board of the United States Bone and Joint Decade (2006-2008), co-led the International Bone and Joint Decade Conference in Washington DC (2010), served on the council of the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research (2010-2013) and the Orthopedic Research Society. Prof. Lane is a board member of the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (2020), a fellow of the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research (2019), a member of the American Clinical and Climatological Association (2018), a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2017), a scientific advisory committee member of the International Osteoporosis Foundation (2013), an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (2012), a member of the Association of Osteobiology (2007), and a member of the Association of American Physicians (2006). Awards: the Laureate Award from Northern California Chapter of the ACP (2019); the Steven Krane Award, American Society of Bone and Mineral Research (2016); the Paula Stern Lifetime Achievement Award, ASBMR September (2013); the Remodeling in Bone (RIB) Award, International Society of Bone and Mineral Research (2012); Master of the American College of Physicians (2012); and the International Bone Joint Decade Outstanding Achievement Award for Mentoring Workshops (2008). In addition, Prof. Lane has been named Best Doctors in America annually since 2004 and continues to have an active rheumatology practice. Prof. Lane is on the editorial boards of The Journal of Clinical Rheumatology, The Journal of Musculoskeletal Medicine, The Journal of Rheumatology, Osteoporosis International, Arthritis Research, Arthritis Self-Management, Nature Reviews Rheumatology, Journal Rheumatology, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism (Associate Editor), Rheumatology Network, and the Journal of Rheumatic Diseases and Treatment. Prof. Lane is an internationally recognized scientist in the fields of both osteoporosis and osteoarthritis. Her translational research team has been instrumental in defining the role of glucocorticoids in bone fragility including their effects on cell stress and vulnerable cell populations including osteocytes.
