Muriel Babey, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Muriel Babey is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF. She is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in the subspecialty of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism. As a physician-scientist in the Ingraham lab, she engages in cutting-edge research at the interface of skeletal health, metabolism, and aging.

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She is interested in how other tissues, such as the brain, affect bone health, especially during aging or in poor metabolic health. She hypothesizes that defining the molecular and cellular signatures of unhealthy bone, especially in females, may reveal new endocrine pathways that contribute to the overall metabolic decline experienced by postmenopausal women. Results could provide new therapeutic avenues to overcome metabolic dysfunction and aging.

Education & Training

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• Endocrinology (Clinical Fellowship with Research Focus) University of California, San Francisco 06/2022
• Internal Medicine (Internship and Residency) Highland Hospital, AHS 06/2017
• General Surgery (Internship) Highland Hospital, AHS 06/2014
• Endocrinology (Research) University of California, San Francisco 06/2013
• Endocrinology (Research) Northwestern University 9/2009
• Endocrinology (Clinical/Research) University of Berne 04/2008
• Neurosurgery (Clinical) University of Berne 12/2007
• MD Medicine University of Berne 12/2006

Publications (11)

Top publication keywords:
OsteoblastsProlactinomaDopamine AgonistsOsteocalcinBone DevelopmentParathyroid HormoneGranulomaDiabetes InsipidusHypoparathyroidismReceptor, IGF Type 1Sex CharacteristicsArthralgiaHypopituitarismPeptides, CyclicInsulin Resistance

• Brain-Derived CCN3 Is An Osteoanabolic Hormone That Sustains Bone in Lactating Females.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023 Babey ME, Krause WC, Herber CB, Chen K, Nikkanen J, Rodriquez R, Zhang X, Castro-Navarro F, Wang Y, Villeda S, Lane NE, Scheller EL, Chan CKF, Ambrosi TH, Ingraham HA
• No Evidence of Association Between Undercarboxylated Osteocalcin and Incident Type 2 Diabetes.
  Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research 2022 Babey ME, Ewing SK, Strotmeyer ES, Napoli N, Schafer AL, Vittinghoff E, Gundberg CM, Schwartz AV
• Conventional Treatment of Hypoparathyroidism.
  Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America 2018 Babey M, Brandi ML, Shoback D
• An Unusual Case of Colonic Intussusception Masquerading as a Transverse Colon Mass.
  The American journal of gastroenterology 2016 Ramesh R, Juhn A, Babey M, Patel K, Liu B
• Osteoblast-Specific Loss of IGF1R Signaling Results in Impaired Endochondral Bone Formation During Fracture Healing.
  Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research 2015 Wang T, Wang Y, Menendez A, Fong C, Babey M, Tahimic CG, Cheng Z, Li A, Chang W, Bikle DD

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• Gender-Specific Differences in the Skeletal Response to Continuous PTH in Mice Lacking the IGF1 Receptor in Mature Osteoblasts.
  Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research 2015 Babey M, Wang Y, Kubota T, Fong C, Menendez A, ElAlieh HZ, Bikle DD
• Insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor in mature osteoblasts is required for periosteal bone formation induced by reloading.
  Acta astronautica 2013 Kubota T, Elalieh HZ, Saless N, Fong C, Wang Y, Babey M, Cheng Z, Bikle DD
• Pituitary surgery for small prolactinomas as an alternative to treatment with dopamine agonists.
  Pituitary 2011 Babey M, Sahli R, Vajtai I, Andres RH, Seiler RW
• Familial forms of diabetes insipidus: clinical and molecular characteristics.
  Nature reviews. Endocrinology 2011 Babey M, Kopp P, Robertson GL
• Acute onset of polyarthralgia and high anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies in a case of idiopathic granulomatous hypophysitis.
  The Journal of rheumatology 2009 Babey M, Aeberli D, Vajtai I, Sahli R
• Morbidity in 201 patients with small sized meningioma treated by microsurgery.
  Acta neurochirurgica 2006 Reinert M, Babey M, Curschmann J, Vajtai I, Seiler RW, Mariani L