- Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Assistant Dean for Student and Academic Affairs, Director of MD-PhD Programme, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, USA
Robert N Taylor MD PhD was previously the Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Utah, Wake Forest and Emory Universities and Director of the Center for Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Professor Taylor received his undergraduate education at Stanford University and completed the combined MD-PhD program at Baylor College of Medicine. His graduate work on the molecular biology of estrogen action was performed under the supervision of Roy Smith PhD and Bert O’Malley MD. Professor Taylor trained as a resident in Obstetrics and Gynecology and subsequently as a fellow in Reproductive Endocrinology with Robert Jaffe MD at UCSF. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Lewis (“Rusty”) Williams MD PhD in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at UCSF, where he studied the regulation of angiogenesis by growth factors and their receptors in the placenta.
Robert Taylor is a board-certified obstetrician-gynaecologist and reproductive endocrinologist widely published in the areas of endometriosis, endometrial vascularization, embryonic implantation, preeclampsia and other pregnancy complications. His laboratory has been continuously funded by the NIH since 1987 and his team investigates the molecular and cell biology of the human uterus and placenta, with an emphasis on endocrine and paracrine regulation of chemokines, cytokines and neuroangiogenic growth factors in endometriosis.
Professor Taylor has served as principal investigator on several clinical and translational grants and also on influential international, national and state executive committees including the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, NIH Reproductive Scientist Development Program and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. He was recognised with the ASRM Distinguished Researcher Award in 2007 and shared the 2015 Harry Reich Award for pioneering work in the science and treatment of endometriosis from the Endometriosis Foundation of America with the late Ronald Batt MD.
Professor Robert Taylor joined the World Endometriosis Society Board in September 2005 and was appointed Honorary Secretary in September 2011. He has been a WES Ambassador since May 2017, after completing his tenure on the board.