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Ilpo Huhtaniemi
Ilpo Huhtaniemi received his MD and PhD at University of Helsinki, Finland, did postdoctoral training in USA (UC San Francisco and NIH, Bethesda), and has been on sabbatical leave in Germany, USA and Scotland. He held 1986-2002 the post of Professor and Chairman of Physiology at University of Turku, Finland. He moved in 2002 to UK to a Chair in Reproductive Endocrinology at Imperial College London. He has received several national and international honours, amongst them a fellowship of The Academy of Medical Sciences (UK) and a Doctor Honoris Causa at the Medical University Lodz, Poland. He has been the Chief Managing Editor of Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology since 1999, has served in the Editorial Board of Endocrinology and Endocrine Reviews and is/has been the Editor or Editorial Board Member of several other scientific journals (e.g. Eur J Endocrinol, Clin Endocrinol, Hum Reprod Update, J Endocrinol, Mol Hum Reprod, Reproduction, Asian J Androl). He has extensive experience as Official of international scientific organizations (e.g. Past President of International Society of Andrology). His research interests include clinical and basic reproductive endocrinology, in particular the function of gonadotrophins. He also has long-term interests in development of male contraception, hormone-dependent cancer, and the endocrinology of ageing. He has authored about 600 peer-reviewed research articles.
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