Caren G. Carpenter

Caren G. Carpenter, professor emerita of orthopaedics and rehabilitation, is interested in the development of serum markers for the evaluation of osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease, focusing primarily on osteocalcin, a vitamin K-dependent protein synthesized only in bone, and has conducted large population studies relating serum osteocalcin levels to race, gender, normal growth, development, and aging and to a variety of metabolic bone diseases including osteoporosis. She is currently actively involved in characterizing the circulating forms of osteocalcin and defining the factors that influence its synthesis and secretion, developing site specific antibodies and is investigating the circulating forms of osteocalcin through the use of these monoclonal antibodies.