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Mission Statement

• The UCSF/UC Berkeley Male Reproductive Biology group is committed to advancing excellence in patient care and research. This highly collaborative research group seeks to:1. Understand basic mechanisms of male

reproduction 2. Translate knowledge of basic male reproductive

mechanisms into clinical diagnostic and therapeutic male infertility interventions.

Spermatogenesis and Stem Cell Biology

• Research Goals• Director, Nam Tran

Sperm Molecular Biology

• Research Goals• Director, Polina Lishko

Genetics of Male Infertility

• Research Goals• Director, Shweta Choudhry

Epidemiology and Geospatial Modeling

• Population-based male reproductive research• Director: To be determined

Fertility Preservation

• To understand the effect of cancer and cancer treatment on male reproduction

• To identify barriers to fertility preservation• To understand how desire for fertility affects

cancer treatment decisions• To identify means to improve fertility

preservation• Director, James Smith

Clinical Trials

• TKI and male reproduction– To measure the effect of Tyrosine Kinase

Inhibitors on male reproductive function

Male Reproductive Tissue Bank

• Surgical tissue– Testicle: normal and abnormal– Epididymis– Vas deferens– Seminal vesicle

• Semen samples• Serum • Clinical correlates• Directors: James Smith and Shweta Choudhry

Molecular Biology Post-Doctoral Fellowship

• Director, Polina Lishko

Spermatogenesis Post-Doctoral Fellowship

• Director, Nam Tran

Grant Funding

• R01- Fatty acid regulation of ion channels• UCSF RAP-TKI and male reproduction• R01-Seminal vesicle function and HIV

Administrative

• Imelda Tenggara-Research coordinator• Fertility Preservation Clinical Research

Coordinator• Fertility Preservation Contact