Mark Hedger
Associate Professor
Centre for Reproductive Health
Hudson Institute of Medical Research
Australia
Biography
Associate Professor Mark Hedger has worked in men’s reproductive health since completing his PhD at Monash University in 1984. Subsequently, A/Prof Hedger received an NIH Visiting Fellowship to work in the Gamete Biology Section, Laboratory of Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology in the USA. In 1987, he returned to Melbourne to take up an Australian Postdoctoral Research Fellowship with the Department of Anatomy at Monash University. From 1991 until 1994 A/Prof Hedger was an NHMRC Wright Fellow at Monash Institute. In 1993 he was appointed an Institute Senior Scientist, and in 1996, Deputy Director of the Centre for Reproduction and Development. In 2001 he received an NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship, a position he continues to hold. He received an Associate Professorial Fellowship through Monash Institute and Monash University’s Department of Physiology in 2003. He has published more than 100 scholarly reports and scientific papers, mostly in the fields of male reproductive endocrinology and immunology. His research was recognized as one of the NHMRC’s “10 of the Best” Research Projects in 2008.
Research Interest
Embryo implantation, reproductive medicine
Publications
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Michel V, Pilatz A, Hedger MP, Meinhardt A (2015) Epididymitis: revelations at the convergence of clinical and basic sciences. Asian Journal of Andrology 17: 756-763. (Review)
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Michel V, Duan Y, Stoschek E, Bhushan S, Middendorff R, Young JM, Loveland KA, de Kretser DM, Hedger MP, Meinhardt A (2016) Uropathogenic Escherichia coli cause fibrotic remodelling of the epididymis. Journal of Pathology 240: 15-24.
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Nicolas N, Michel V, Bhushan S, Wahle E, Hayward S, Ludlow H, de Kretser DM, Loveland KL, Schuppe HC, Meinhardt A, Hedger MP, Fijak M (2017) Testicular activin and follistatin levels are elevated during the course of experimental autoimmune epididymo-orchitis in mice. Scientific Reports 7: 42391.
