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DeLeon honored by American Society of Andrology
5:27 p.m., April 24, 2006--Patricia DeLeon, professor of human genetics in the Department of Biological Sciences, was honored by the American Society of Andrology (ASA) for her research achievements in the field of andrology and for delivering the keynote address at the inaugural mentoring luncheon during the society's annual meeting of in Chicago on April 10. DeLeon, whose talk was titled, "From Sperm Chromosomes to Sperm Antigens,” said she was very pleased to receive the award, which, she added, underlined the fact that andrology, the scientific study of male reproductive diseases, particularly those affecting the male reproductive system, is “very important in a growing society.” ASA, whose members are both clinicians and research scientists, has a unique advantage, DeLeon said, because such interaction ensures that research is applied as soon as possible and, in return, scientists quickly learn about the medical problems. DeLeon was joined at the conference by her current doctoral student Genevieve Griffiths, a UD doctoral student who was among a dozen students and postdoctoral fellows selected to make platform presentations at the conference.
On hand to congratulate DeLeon were UD alums Xiangning Deng, Ph.D AS '98, a senior technical support scientist at Abbott Laboratories, and Yutong Zhao, assistant professor of molecular biology in the department of medicine at the University of Chicago who was a postdoctoral fellow in DeLeon's laboratory. DeLeon's current research focuses on the identification of genes and mechanisms that are involved in sperm dysfunction and male factor infertility/subfertility. Her research group--Griffiths, postdoctoral fellow Minghai Shao; Hong Zhang, a research associate; Kimberly Miller, a senior biology major; Jared Iraggi, a junior biology major; and Kristen Reese, a junior biology major--is studying candidate or novel genes that play a role in spermatogenesis, epididymal sperm maturation and fertilization, the process by which the genome passes from one generation to the next. A faculty member since 1976, DeLeon received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of the West Indies, in Jamaica. She earned her doctorate at the University of Western Ontario, in Canada, and joined McGill University as a postdoctoral fellow. She has served on UD's Board of Trustees, as faculty representative, since 1992. Article by Martin Mbugua
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