Lynda F. Bonewald, Ph.D.

Interim Vice Chancellor for Research
Curators Professor
Lee M and William L. Lefkowitz/Missouri Endowed Professorship
University of Missouri-Kansas City

Dr. Bonewald serves as the Director of the Bone Biology Research Program at the UMKC School of Dentistry Oral Biology and Director of the UMKC Center in the Study of Mineralized Tissues.  She was recently named as the Interim Vice Chancellor for Research. Prior to joining UMKC in 2001, she was a member of Dr. Gregory Mundy’s group at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Dr. Bonewald’s research focuses on osteocyte biology. Osteocytes are the most abundant cell in bone and may be responsible for sensing mechanical stress and regulated bone mass. She is Director of a program project entitled “Osteocyte Function and Effects of Mechanical Strain.”

Dr. Bonewald previously chaired the Board of Scientific Counselors of the NIH’s National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, chaired the Advocacy Committee for American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, ASBMR, and was a member of the Public Affairs Executive Committee of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.  She is an Associate Editor for Journal for Bone and Mineral Research and serves on the editorial boards for the Journal for Biomolecular Techniques, Bone, and Experimental Biology and Medicine.  She is the recipient of the Distinguished Scientist award in the area of mineralized tissue from AADR/IADR and the Remodeling in Bone Award from the Sun Valley Workshop. She was program co-organizer for ASBMR 2009 and is presently ASBMR Secretary/Treasurer.

Dr. Bonewald received her PhD Degree in 1984 from the Medical University of South Carolina in Immunology and Microbiology and performed her postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Makio Ogawa in the area of hemopoeitic stem cell growth factors.  Upon her move to UMKC in 2001 she brought a two NIH funded R01s and a program project as a full professor.    She has authored/co-authored more than 32 chapters, 130 peer-reviewed manuscripts, and 24 reviews.