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David de Kretser
Professor David de Kretser, AC was inducted as Governor of Victoria in April, 2006. Prior to this, he was the Foundation Director of the Institute of Reproduction & Development (from 1 Feb 05 known as the Monash Institute of Medical Research) at Monash University. During his time at Monash University's Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, he was a founding Board Member of the Monash University Medical Foundation. He received his MBBS (1962) from the University of Melbourne and his MD (1969) from Monash University for a thesis entitled "Studies on the structure and function of the Human Testis". He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He was admitted as an Officer in the Order of Australia in 2000 and was made a Companion in the Order of Australia in 2006. He was appointed a Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor in 2003.
His research in the field of reproductive biology, infertility and endocrinology is internationally recognised and has resulted in over 600 papers in national and international peer reviewed journals and he has been the Editor of a number of books. He has made important contributions to our knowledge of male infertility. Together with his graduate students and fellows, his laboratory established the existence of paracrine (local) regulatory mechanisms in the testis. Over the past decade he co-directed a program of research into the isolation and biology of the inhibin related proteins and has lead to numerous studies of the role of these proteins in reproductive biology and other systems. More recent research interests included investigations into genetic causes of male infertility, inflammation biology, biology of the TGFβ family of proteins. His research was supported continuously by grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, World Health Organisation and the Ford Foundation, Biotechnology research grants and Industry. He supervised over 30 Ph.D. students and 25 international postdoctoral fellows.
Throughout his medical academic career, he served on a number of editorial boards of international journals and has presented over 65 invited papers at international meetings over the past decade, including Plenary lectures. His work has been recognised by the Senior Organon Award of the Australian Endocrine Society, the Serono Lecturer of the American Society for Andrology, the Distinguished Andrologist Award of the American Society of Andrology and, in 2004, the Robert Williams Distinguished Leadership Award of the US Endocrine Society. He also served on the Executive Council of the International Society for Andrology, including a term as its President.
He was also a member of the Bioethics Committee of the Uniting Church of Australia, Victorian Synod.
He initiated and directed Andrology Australia, the Federal Government's program in male reproductive health that provides public and professional education and research in this important area of Men's Health.
In addition to being Director of Andrology Australia, he was Executive Chair of the Monash Institutes of Health and Associate Dean (Biotechnology Development) for the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences.
CURRICULUM VITAE - David de Kretser
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