Gerold Grodsky

Dr. Grodsky is Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Medicine at UCSF (Emeritus, active). He has served as Research Chairman of the Advisory Board to the Secretary of Health and on the editorial boards of numerous journals. Dr. Grodsky is the founding Advisory Editor of Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics. The Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, International Foundation, has given an Annual Gerold Grodsky Award for basic research in diabetes since 1994. Dr. Grodsky’s teaching at UCSF focuses on intermediary metabolism of sugars, fats and proteins. He has published more than 225 articles, predominately dealing with the regulation of insulin synthesis / secretion, glucose desensitization, and the role of reactive oxygen species in diabetes. Dr. Grodsky has been an invited lecturer in over twenty-five countries. Dr. Grodsky received his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley and was a Post-Doctorial Fellow at Cambridge University, England.