Ashok Agarwal, PhD, HCLD
Department of Urology, Glickman Urologic and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
Research interest: male infertility, ART, male reproduction, oxidative stress, sperm function
Ashok Agarwal is the Director of the Clinical Andrology Laboratory and Reproductive Tissue Bank and the Director of Research at the Center for Reproductive Medicine. He holds these positions at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, where he is a Professor at the Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and, since 1993, Senior Staff in the Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Obstetrics-Gynecology and Women’s Health Institute, Anatomic Pathology, and Immunology. He has published over 500 scientific papers and review articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, authored over 100 book chapters, and presented over 700 papers at both national and international scientific meetings.
Dr. Agarwal is active in basic and clinical research and has been invited as a guest speaker to over 25 countries for important international meetings. He has directed more than a dozen ART and Andrology Laboratory Workshops and Symposia in recent years. Dr. Agarwal is the Program Director of the highly successful Summer Internship Course in Reproductive Medicine. He is the recipient of 85 research grants. His current research interests include studies on molecular markers of oxidative stress, DNA integrity, and proteomics in the pathophysiology of male and female reproduction, effect of radiofrequency radiation on fertility and fertility preservation in patients with cancer.
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Terms of Appointment: January 2014 - December 2016; January 2017 - December 2018; January 2019 - December 2020; January 2021 - December 2022; January 2023 - December 2024