Raymond Rodgers

Biography

Ray Rodgers undertakes novel and internationally competitive research (>90 publications) in the area of female reproductive function, particularly ovarian function. Each step of his research career has resulted in novel discoveries, and ones in which many other researchers have followed. His strength has been to mount multidisciplinary approaches to areas not tackled previously, or not successfully. Developing new areas is generally less productive but more rewarding if successful. Ray Rodgers has been singularly successful at doing both. His earlier discoveries are now in textbooks. Since the early 1980's, Ray Rodgers has made many unique and substantial contributions to our understanding of how ovaries produce hormones and it is now very clear that the regulation of hormone production is unlike that of any other endocrine organ. The pattern of hormone secretion by the ovary changes on a day-to-day basis depending on the state of the development or regression of the endocrine organs, follicles and corpora lutea, within the ovary. Tissue development remodeling and regression involve cell division, differentiation, migration and apoptosis and Ray Rodgers has used several experimental strategies, including physiology, histology, electron microscopy, morphometry, cell isolation and culture and molecular biology, to study these processes.

Research Interest

Medicine,Medical Education,Research,etc