Professor D'Hooghe is a Fundamental
Clinical Investigator funded by the Belgian Research
Foundation and the Leuven University Hospitals to devote
his research time to endometriosis since 1998.
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 appointed 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 Hill and
Professor DJ Anderson at the Ferring Research Laboratory
in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham
and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston,
USA.
He has been the Coordinator (2006-2009), and is now
Past Coordinator (2009-2011), of the Special Interest
Group for Endometriosis and Endometrium of the European
Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE).
Since 2001, he has served as 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 140 papers in international peer reviewed journals.
His work is/has been funded by the Research Fund KU
Leuven/ Onderzoeksfonds KU Leuven, the Clinical Research
Fund Leuven University Hospitals, Leuven, Belgium, the
FWO (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek/Scientific Research
Foundation Leuven University Research Foundation, Collen
Research Foundation, Vlaamse Interuniversitaire Raad
(VLIR/Flemish Interuniversity Council), EU Public Health
Branch, 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 Astellas,
Bayer Schering Pharma, Centocor, Merck-Serono, Ferring,
Schering-Plough, Genentech and Pfizer. 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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