Asgi Fazleabas, 2019-20 AAN Leadership Fellow
Asgi Fazleabas, Ph.D. received his BS degree from California State University, Fresno and his PhD in Reproductive Physiology from the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign. Following his postdoctoral training in Reproductive Biology/Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Florida in Gainesville he joined the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he held the rank of Professor and Director of Women’s Health and Reproduction until October 2009. He is currently University Distinguished Professor, MSU Foundation Professor and Associate Chair of Research in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Director of the Center for Women’s Health Research, and Co-Director of the Reproductive and Developmental Sciences Program at Michigan State University. His research focuses on understanding the pathophysiology of endometriosis, an estrogen dependent disease that affects 10% of reproductive aged women and the implications of an aberrant uterine environment that contributes to infertility in women.