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John K. Critser, PhD
Professor of Veterinary Pathobiology, Co-Investigator MU-iCATS

John K. Critser, PhD, is responsible for leadership and administration of the cores involving novel clinical/translational methodologies, translational technologies/resources, and pilot and collaborative translational/clinical studies. Dr. Critser received his Bachelors degree in Biology and Philosophy from Ripon College and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, he established the Reproductive Biology Laboratory at Methodist Hospital of Indiana where he was director until 1997. In 1997, he moved to the Indiana University School of Medicine as an associate professor in Pediatrics. In 2000, he was promoted to full professor. In 2001, Dr. Critser moved his research program to the University of Missouri-Columbia where he is the Gilbreath-McLorn Professor of Comparative Medicine and Director of the Comparative Medicine Center.

At MU, he has developed 3 NIH-funded national animal resource centers which are focused, in large part, on comparative medicine. Most recently, Dr. Critser was awarded an R01 component of the Oncofertility U54 program, one of the first funded NIH Roadmap Initiative projects.

Dr. Critser is a member of many professional societies, and editorial review boards; he has been continuously funded by the NIH for 20 years, has published over 160 peer reviewed articles and reviews, is the past chair of the NIH National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) Comparative Medicine Study Section, and has mentored more than 30 graduate students and 20 postdoctoral fellows, many of whom are now in professional roles in the areas of cryobiology, comparative medicine, reproductive biology, molecular biology, engineering, medicine, and veterinary medicine.


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