Moira O'Bryan
Professor and Head of the School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science
Core expertise
Male infertility
Sperm function
Sperm development
Biography
In addition to her role as Head of the School of Biological Sciences, Moira leads the Male Infertility and Germ Cell Biology Laboratory. This group studies sperm development and function and the causes of human male infertility.
Moira has achieved a substantial track record for the promotion of science through her position as a past national director of The Australian Society for Medical Research, and as a member of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Cell and Developmental Biology. She has also made significant contributions to the infrastructure of Australian medical research through the establishment of The Australian Phenome Bank and the Australian Centre for Vertebrate Mutation Detection, the Monash Male Infertility Repository and the Australian Phenomics Network.