President-American Society for Reproductive Immunology
Editor Journal Placenta

Professor of Physiology, Bochemistry Microbiology and Immunology
Wayne State University

Lab website: mott.med.wayne.edu/riu 

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Dr. Gil Mor, M.D., Ph.D. is the John M. Malone Jr. MD, Endowed Chair of Women’s Health Research and Scientific Director of The C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development at Wayne State University. He is Professor and Vice Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology department, and the former Chair of the Department of Physiology. Before moving to Wayne State University, he was a Tenured Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Science at Yale University School of Medicine. In his research he examines topics related to the immunology of pregnancy and the role of inflammation in cancer formation and progression. He was the Division Director of the Reproductive Science Division at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Yale and directed the Reproductive Immunology Unit and the Translational Research Program “Discovery To Cure”. Dr. Mor was the Editor in Chief of the American Journal of Reproductive Immunology since 2009 to 2019, and the journal Placenta (2020-2022). He is the Past-President of the American Society for Reproductive Immunology.

Dr. Mor has been funded by grants from National Institute of Child Health Development (NICHD), National Cancer Institute (NCI) and National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) as well as by several pharmaceutical companies and is widely published in the areas of immunology and reproduction with more than 340 publications and is the editor of five books on “Immunology of pregnancy” and “Apoptosis and Cancer”. He is also the Senior Editor of a book series on Reproductive Immunology with Elsevier.

Dr. Mor is recipient of several national and international prizes, including the Pearl River Professor from Jinan University Guangzhou China, the J. Christian Herr Award- and the AJRI Award from the Society for Reproductive Immunology. He is member of the Academy of Scholars at WSU and recipient of the ASRI Distinguished Service Award.

Dr. Mor is member of the American Association for Cancer Research, the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, American Association of Immunologist, and the American Society of Reproductive Immunology. He is also Member of the International Advisory Committee for the Sino-American Center of Translational Medicine. Southern Medical University, China, Advisory Professor at Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan China and Honorary member and Professor of several scientific societies in Asia, South America, and Europe.

 

 

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