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J Anton Grootegoed
J. Anton Grootegoed was born 1950 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He studied biology at Nijmegen University, and obtained a PhD from Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1978, based on his thesis work on hormonal control of spermatogenesis. Following a post-doc period at City of Hope (Duarte, CA, USA, with Susumu Ohno) he continued to study gametogenesis in rodents, in Rotterdam. In 1990 he became full professor of biochemical endocrinology, and accepted the chair of the Department of Reproduction and Development at Erasmus MC - University Medical Center. The research of his department is focused on gametogenesis and early embryonic development in mammalian species. Current studies of the department address the behavior of sex chromosomes in meiosis, X chromosome inactivation in embryonic development, and regulation of stem cells.
He supervised 30 students obtaining their PhD degree in the period 1987-2010.
In the period 1986-1992, he was Steering Committee Member in the Special Programme Human Reproduction of the World Health Organization. From 1991-2004 he acted as Review Editor of Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. For the International Society of Andrology, he acted as Chair of the Program Committee (2001-2005), President (2005-2009), and Past President (2009-2013).
In 1999 he was awarded the Laqueur Lecture from the Dutch Society for Endocrinology.
Through the years, he is involved in science communication projects, in addition to his teaching activities in the regular medical curriculum at Erasmus MC. Furthermore, he is co-founder and director of the Erasmus MC Junior Science program (2005-present) and the Erasmus MC Master of Science in Molecular Medicine program (1999-present).
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