The Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR) is an international not-for-profit
professional society for scientists working in the fields of reproduction, fertility and development.
The Society focuses on reproduction in both people and animals, including research from the areas of medicine, agriculture and basic biology.
It is credited with being the first organization to focus on "the full panoply of reproductive phenomena"
and is listed as a major professional association publishing reproductive research
and a major organization in American animal agriculture.
The Society includes members from at least 50 countries worldwide.
The official peer-reviewed scientific journal for SSR is ''
Biology of Reproduction''.
History
The Society for the Study of Reproduction was formed in June 1967, in an organizational meeting held during the Annual Meeting of the
American Society of Animal Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana.
The first president of the Society was Robert M. Melampy.
He organized SSR's first annual meeting, which was held in August 1968 at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. The Society's journal ''
Biology of Reproduction'' first appeared in 1969.
The Society's
articles of incorporation
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as a
nonprofit organization
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were filed in the state of Illinois in 1974.
Activities
As of 2021, the Society's president was Troy L. Ott, Professor of Reproductive Physiology at
Pennsylvania State University's Department of Animal Science.
The first woman to be president of SSR was
Neena Schwartz
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, who held the office from 1977 to 1978.
Schwartz credits SSR as being more willing than older scientific societies to admit women as participants in its administration, board and program planning. She contrasts SSR favorably with the
American Physiological Society
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and
Endocrine Society, of all of which she was a member.
The Society recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of reproduction through a number of awards, including the
Carl G. Hartman Award,
the SSR Research Award,
SSR Jansen Distinguished Leadership and Service Award,
the
Fuller W. Bazer SSR International Scientist Award,
the
Virendra B. Mahesh New Investigator Award,
and the SSR Trainee Mentoring Award
as well as additional funding for future scientists.
References
External links
* {{Official website, https://www.ssr.org/my-ssr/home
The Future Conceived SSR Podcast
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