Derek LeRoith

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Derek LeRoith is a South African endocrinologist. He is a Professor of Medicine and the current Chief of the Hilda and J. Lester Gabrilove, M.D. Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease and Director of the Metabolism Institute of the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. He is an international expert in insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1).

LeRoith was the first to demonstrate the link between insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and cancer. Provided by Wikipedia