Associate Professor Moira O'Bryan

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

Assoc Prof Moira O'Bryan’s research focuses on the identification of key regulatory processes in sperm development and function. Assoc Prof O’Bryan received her PhD from The University of Melbourne, Department of Medicine (St. Vincent’s Hospital) in 1994 in the area of complement regulation and its relevance to human male fertility. She then moved to The Population Council, Center for Biomedical Research in New York as an Andrew Mellon Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow where she worked on the purification and characterization of Sertoli cell derived regulators of pituitary function. In 1996, Assoc Prof O’Bryan returned to Australia to take up a position at MIMR as an NHMRC Peter Doherty Fellow.

Assoc Prof O’Bryan has published extensively in the areas of the interaction between the immune system and male fertility, endocrine regulation, the identification and characterization of novel sperm tail proteins and the genetics of male infertility.

Assoc Prof O’Bryan is a Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Biotechnology and Development. She also holds several NHMRC grants. She is involved in the running of the Monash Male Infertility Repository, which is a valuable resource of clinical material and data on men with male infertility. She is currently the management group chair of the Australian Phenomics Network.

Assoc Prof O’Bryan has received awards from the Australian Academy of Science, the Fertility Society of Australia, the Endocrine Society of Australia, and the Society for Reproduction (Australia). Recently Dr O'Bryan was named as The American Society of Andrology "2008 Young Andrologist of the Year". She has been involved in the promotion medical research as a national director of the Australian Society for Medical Research and as an advisor to Andrology Australia.