Welcome!

Laura Hernandez, PhD                                          Manish Patankar, PhD
Program Director                                                     Associate Program Director

The Endocrinology and Reproductive Physiology Graduate Program is an interdisciplinary endocrine program with a longstanding focus on reproduction. Our faculty’s research spans from disordered metabolism (such as hypertension, obesity and diabetes) to reproductive biology (such as sexual differentiation, fetal programming, pregnancy complications, and cancers of the reproductive tract.) We use a variety of multidisciplinary approaches in our research, from stem cells and cellular/molecular biology, to comparative physiology, to translational work in humans. We are able to provide such diversity in research opportunities thanks to the varied backgrounds more than 50 faculty trainers, drawn from 15 departments across 5 schools and colleges.