Mark R Haussler

Biography

 

Dr. Mark Haussler is a Regents Professor in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences at the UA College of Medicine-Phoenix who has taught and carried out biomedical research at the University of Arizona since 1971. Dr. Haussler's laboratory at The University of Arizona has been continuously funded by the NIH for four decades, with a total of 61 equivalent years of R01 support from two grants, each of which achieved MERIT status. Dr. Haussler's H-Index is 80, highest among the faculty on the Phoenix Campus and highest at UAHS Statewide.  He has also taught first year medical students for 45 years, and was voted a Lifetime Educator of the Year by the students at The University of Arizona College of Medicine in 2003. Professor Haussler has published 285 papers the field of molecular endocrinology, with an emphasis on vitamin D, sex steroids, and bone. Dr. Haussler discovered the renal vitamin D hormone and first measured it in patients. His laboratory also discovered and cloned the vitamin D hormone receptor as well as identified estrogen and androgen receptors in bone. In 2010, Dr. Haussler was appointed SRP Valley of the Sun Endowed Professor, the first named Chair at the College of Medicine-Phoenix.

 

Degrees

• Ph.D. U.S.P.H.S. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry
• School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Phililadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Sponsor: Howard Rasmussen
• Ph.D. Biochemistry
• University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California
• The Specific Association of a Vitamin D Metabolite with Genome of Its Target Organ, In VivoDirector: Anthony W. Norman

Awards

• Vernon and Virginia Furrow Award for Excellence in Innovation in Teaching in Medical Biochemistry
• University of Arizona College of Medicine, Spring 1994
• MERIT(R37) Award for "Vitamin D Hormone Signaling in Bone Mineral Homeostasis" (R01-DK33351-25); 1987-2012 ($205,000 direct costs/year)
• National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (1992-2000), Spring 1992
• Citation Superstar: Ranked 326th Most Cited Scientist for the Period 1973-1984
• The Institute for Scientific Information, Spring 1990
• MERIT(R37) Award for "Novel Functions of the Vitamin D Receptor and Disease" (R01-DK063930-36); 1972-2008 ($250,000 direct costs/year)
• The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (1990-1997), Spring 1990
• Regents Professor Title: Awarded for sustained exceptional achievement that has brought national and international distinction in research and scholarship
• The University of Arizona, Spring 1990
• Osborne and Mendel Award, For Outstanding Recent Basic Research in Nutrition, shared with J. W. Pike
• The Nutrition Foundation, Spring 1984
• Citation Classic
• New England Journal of Medicine, Spring 1983
• Founder's Day Science Forum Award Lecture
• University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Spring 1981
• Fuller Albright Young Investigator Award, For Outstanding Scientific Achievement in the Field of Bone and Mineral Metabolism
• American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, Spring 1981
• Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Faculty Scholar Award
• Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, Spring 1979
• Prix Andre Lichtwitz, for Research in Calcium and Phosphorus Metabolism (France)
• Republic of France, Spring 1976
• SRP Valley of the Sun Endowed Professor
• College of Medicine-Phoenix, Spring 2010
• Career Contributions to Vitamin D Research Award
• Fourteenth Workshop on Vitamin D, Spring 2009
• Recognized as a Principal Investigator in the top 5 percentile of funding for all NIH grant awardees in the previous 25 years
• Derived from public records by an NIH Researcher, Spring 2005
• William F. Neuman Award - For Outstanding and Major Scientific Contributions in the Area of Bone and Mineral Research
• American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, Spring 2005
• Basic Sciences Educator Lifetime Award
• University of Arizona College of Medicine, Spring 2003
• Basic Sciences Educator of the Year
• University of Arizona College of Medicine, Spring 2002
• University of Arizona College of Medicine, Spring 2001
• University of Arizona College of Medicine, Spring 2000
• Distinguished Scientist Award for Translational Research from the Clinical Ligand Assay Society
• Clinical Ligand Assay Society, Spring 2002