Associate Professor Mark Hedger

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

Associate Professor Mark Hedger has worked in men’s reproductive health since completing his PhD at Monash University in 1984. Following his PhD, A/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, 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 was awarded 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 recognised as one of the NHMRC’s “10 of the Best” Research Projects in 2008.

A/Prof Hedger is a member of several Australian and International societies including the Australian Society for Medical Research, the National Association of Research Fellows, the Society for Reproductive Biology, the Australasian Society for Immunology and the Endocrine Society of Australia, as well as the Society for the Study of Reproduction, the American Society of Andrology and the Endocrine Society (USA). He currently serves on the editorial boards of the journals Reproduction, Andrologia and the Journal of Reproductive Immunology, and is an associate editor for Human Reproduction.