Susan Taymans, Ph.D.

Dr. Susan Taymans is the program director for Embryonic Gonad and Gamete Development, Basic Ovarian Function and Dysfunction, and Fertility Preservation Programs in the Fertility and Infertility Branch of NICHD. She is also responsible for managing the institutional training grants (T32s) funded by the branch. She is the co-chair of the NICHD Training Policy Committee and the NICHD Diversity Supplement Committee. She joined the branch in 1999, following a postdoctoral position in endocrine genetics in the laboratory of Dr. Constantine Stratakis, NICHD Scientific Director. She received her Ph.D. in molecular endocrinology from the University of Maryland.