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Thomas D'Hooghe, MD, PhD
 

Professor, Leuven University, Belgium

Director, Leuven University Fertility Center

Serono Chair for Reproductive Medicine, Leuven University (2005-2009)



Professor D'Hooghe is a Fundamental Clinical Investigator funded by the Belgian Research Foundation to devote his research time to endometriosis. As a Research Associate at the Institute of Primate Research (IPR), Nairobi, Kenya, he has developed the baboon model for the study of pathogenesis, prevention and treatment of endometriosis since 1990, and is now developing the baboon as a model for assisted reproduction, embryonic stem cell research and prevention of HIV infection. He was bappointed as the Chairman of the International Advisory Board for IPR in February 2007.

After his PhD at Leuven University (promotor Professor Philippe Koninckx), he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in reproductive immunology with Professor JA Hil and Professor DJ Anderson at the Ferring Research Laboratory in the Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.

He is the present Coordinator (2006-2009) of the Special Interest Group for Endometriosis and Endometrium of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), and Editor-in-Chief of Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation, one of the oldest peer reviewed journals in the area of reproduction. He joined the Editorial Board of Fertility & Sterility in January 2008.

Professor D'Hooghe has published more than 100 papers in international peer reviewed journals, and his work is/has been funded by the Leuven University Research Foundation, the Belgian Research Foundation, the Collen Research Foundation, the Flemish Government, the Endometriosis Association, the EU, and NATO. Indirect funding from the NIH and the Wellcome Trust has been obtained through international collaborative projects.

He is or has been an advisor/consultant to Serono, Ferring, Organon, Genentech, Pfizer, Schering, and Centocor. His research interests include endometriosis (pathogenesis, subfertility, pain and the study of new agents that may prevent or treat endometriosis based on preclinical research in the baboon model), assisted reproduction, and reproductive ethics/mental health.

Professor D'Hooghe is a founding board member of the World Endometriosis Research Foundation.

 

 

 


 

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