Associate Professor Mark Hedger

NHMRC Senior Fellow & Senior Scientist, Centre for Reproduction & Development

Assoc Prof Mark Hedger has worked in men’s reproductive health since completing his PhD at Monash University in 1984. Following his PhD, Assoc Prof Hedger was awarded an NIH Visiting Fellowship 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, Assoc 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 still holds today. He was awarded an Associate Professorial Fellowship through Monash Institute and Monash University’s Department of Physiology in 2003.

Assoc Prof Hedger is a member of several Australian societies including the Australian Society for Medical Research, the National Association of Research Fellows, the Society for Reproductive Biology, Australasian Society for Immunology and the Endocrine Society of Australia, as well as the Society for the Study of Reproduction and the Endocrine Society (both in the USA).

He sits on the advisory boards of Andrologia and Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology and is on the editorial boards of Journal of Endocrinology and the Journal of Reproductive Immunology.