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Senior Scientist Profile Patricia L. Morris is a senior scientist at the Population Council's Center for Biomedical Research. She received her doctorate in pharmacology and physiology from the School of Graduate Medical Sciences at New York University and postdoctoral training as an Abby Mauzé Rockefeller fellow in medicine (endocrinology) at Cornell University College of Medicine. Morris is the principal investigator of translational biomedical research projects funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health (NIH). These translational projects include studies to identify and characterize critical factors that affect male germ cell development, sperm production (spermatogenesis), and fertility (or infertility) in humans. In addition, state-of-the-art molecular biology–based approaches use human and rodent cell modeling to characterize the cellular signals and mechanisms that control genes in female and male reproductive tissues such as the breast, endometrium, testis, and prostate. Morris is currently the president of Women in Andrology, the American Society of Andrology (ASA); a current member of the Public Affairs Committee, Society for the Study of Reproduction; past council member of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine; past council member of ASA; and a past member of the Endocrine Society’s Endocrinology editorial board and its membership committee. Based on her specific biomedical expertise in hormone and growth factor regulation of development, growth, and function of reproductive tissues—in health, disease, or cancer—Morris has been invited to present the work of her laboratory and its collaborators at national and international basic research and clinical meetings and serve on numerous scientific panels. She has completed four-year terms as a standing member of NIH’s Reproductive Biology study section and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences extramural centers program panel. She continues to serve as an ad hoc peer review member and a scientific consultant for specialized NIH and congressionally directed Department of Defense biomedical research initiatives. Morris directs the Cell Biology and Flow Cytometry Core Facility located at the Population Council’s Center for Biomedical Research. She is a member of the adjunct faculty at The Rockefeller University. Morris is affiliated with the Population Council's Reproductive Health program.
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