Professor Yoel Sadovsky

Dr. Sadovsky is a physician-scientist and board certified in obstetrics and gynecology (Washington University in St Louis), and maternal-fetal medicine (University of California, San Francisco). His NIH-funded research focuses on feto-placental development and molecular mechanisms underlying placental function and response to injuries, aiming to better understand early human development and pregnancy health. He is a member of the US National Academy of Medicine, the Association of American Physicians and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG, ad eundem). He has served as president of the Society for Reproductive Investigation, on the Councils for NIH-NICHD and the March of Dimes, and on the NIH Advisory Committee on Research on Women’s Health. In 2013 he was awarded the Cozzarelli Prize in Biomedical Science from the National Academy of Sciences, USA.