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David Albertini

David Albertini

David Albertini held The Hall Professorship of Molecular Medicine at the University of Kansas from 2004-2011 and is an internationally recognized scientist and educator in the field of reproductive biology and medicine. He has served as Director of the Center for Reproductive Sciences at the University of Kansas Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine, and Chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Tufts University School of Medicine. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, an official journal of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. He has over 150 peer-reviewed original primary research publications, over 50 chapters and reviews, and one book. He serves on the editorial board of major journals. His major research contributions have been in the cell and developmental biology of mammalian reproduction, particularly in oogenesis, and the translation of basic science on oocyte and embryo quality to human assisted reproductive technologies. He is an active reproductive scientist who has trained over 40 students and postdocs and serves on grant review committees for the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, American Cancer Society, National Foundation March of Dimes, The Lalor Foundation, and funding agencies from Israel, Ireland, The Netherlands, Turkey, Belgium, Portugal and the U.K.

Education

1970 - BSc Biology, Marquette University (mentor: Anthony P. Mahowald)
1972 - MSc, Zoology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (mentor: Everett Anderson)

1975 - PhD, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Harvard University (mentors: Everett Anderson and Don W. Fawcett)

1975-1977-Postdoctoral Fellow, Physiology and Biophysics,University of Connecticut Health Center (mentor: Richard D. Berlin)

Overcoming Preconceptions Relating to Assisted Reproductive Technologies

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