Lifetime Achievement Award: Professor W.R. ‘Twink’ Allen

Twink Allen has, without doubt, been one of the most influential and recognizable figures in the development of equine reproduction, and its establishment as a clinical specialty in its own right. For 50 years, he has been at the forefront of scientific discovery into reproductive endocrinology, embryo and placental development, and the development of novel clinical techniques and their refinement for clinical practice. Twink ’s academic endeavours extend into nearly all aspects of equine reproduction, including early embryo development, the developmental origins of adult health and disease (the ‘Barker’ hypothesis), the maternal recognition of pregnancy, placentation, endocrine physiology and exogenous hormonal ma nipulation of the reproductive cycle, the development of assisted reproductive technologies including embryo transfer, embryo cryopreservation, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, the creation of identical twins by embryo splitting, cloning by somatic nuclear transfer and the generation of embryonic stem cell lines.
Source: Journal of Equine Veterinary Science - Category: Veterinary Research Authors: Source Type: research