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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