Rafael A. Fissore is a professor and department head at the University of Massachusetts and has been a member of the community for decades. He graduated with a Ph.D. from the university in 1993 in Animal Science. By that time, he had already been a part of a published paper on calcium concentration in bovine (cattle) eggs in 1992. He continued his work with postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School. The focus there being chemical signals to induce reproduction in animals, one of the signals being calcium. In 2002 he received the CFNR Outstanding Research Award. In 2004, as an associate professor of Animal Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, he gave a talk on his fertilization research at the Activated Egg Symposium. He has also filed three patents between early 2003 and mid 2008, by himself and with teams, all towards his field of research in mammalian fertility.
Fissore is currently the department head of the Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences on campus. In 2008, he received a Distinguished Faculty Lecturer honor and the Chancellor’s Medal. He also teaches the honors Animal Science 521: Physiology of Reproduction class. The class focuses on recent studies on cellular and molecular aspects on mammalian fertilization. It also looks at technical and ethical problems when applying new technologies for assisted reproduction and cloning, and how it applies to agriculture, humans, and the natural world.
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