Endocrine Abstracts

Volume 11

Society for Endocrinology Dale Medal

J Findlay, Prince Henry’s Institute of Medical Research, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia. Abstract

Professor Jock Findlay is Deputy Director and Head of the Female Reproductive Endocrinology Group of Prince Henry’s Institute of Medical Research and a Senior Principal Research Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC). He is Chairperson of the Infertility Treatment Authority of Victoria and the NHMRC Embryo Research Licensing Committee. Professor Findlay was Chair of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group, Department of Reproductive Health & Research, World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland, from 1998-2003.

His awards include the 1999 Society for Endocrinology (UK) Asia and Oceania Medal and the 2006 Distinguished Scientist Award of the Society for Reproduction and Fertility (UK). He is a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to medical research, particularly reproductive biology, and as a medical administrator.

Professor Findlay’s research led to a paradigm shift in understanding the importance of local as well as peripheral regulation of endocrine tissues, particularly by inhibin. The concept of local regulation has been examined in the pituitary, ovary, adrenal and endometrium. His laboratory has been funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health (USA), the Rockefeller Foundation (USA), the Wellcome Trust (UK), and the NHMRC.