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Depaolo, Louis

Title:Branch Chief
Phone:301-435-6970
E-mail:depaolol@mail.nih.gov
Address: 6100 Executive Blvd Room 8B01, MSC 7510
Bethesda Md 20892-7510
For FedEx use:
Rockville Md 20852
Fax:301-480-0289 
Organization:  Reproductive Sciences (RS) Branch
Specialty: Fertility/Infertility
Translational Research
Reproduction/Infertility Centers

Biosketch: 
Louis V. DePaolo, Ph.D., joined the Reproductive Sciences Branch in 1994, and became its chief in 2006. In 1997, Dr. DePaolo established the Contraception and Infertility Research Loan Repayment Program, which became the first extramural loan repayment program at the NIH. He also established the Specialized Cooperative Centers Program in Reproduction and Infertility Research in 1998 and continues to serve as project scientist of this program. Dr. DePaolo received his undergraduate degree in zoology from Rutgers College, and his graduate degree in physiology from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Prior to coming to NIH, he was an associate professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, and a member in the Department of Molecular Endocrinology at the Whittier Institute in La Jolla, California. His research background is in the neuroendocrine control of female reproduction.