About Me
Dr. Lamb's research is in the area of basic and translational science of male reproductive biology and urology. Dolores J. Lamb, Ph.D. is the Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, Robert S. Dow Professor of Urology, Vice-Chair for Research, Director of the Center for Reproductive Genomics & the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine and Professor in the Departments of Urology and Molecular and Cellular Biology at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is an investigator in the fields of urology, male and female reproduction, infertility, steroid hormone action and growth regulatory mechanisms. Her experience is unique, as she has extensive background in both male and female human reproduction and the clinical diagnostic and basic science arenas in urology, human male infertility and congenital urological birth defects. She is experienced with management of large budgets of >$1 million/yr (Director, P01 on Genetic Basis of Male Infertility, KURe K12, Center for Reproductive Medicine Director/Chairman level at BCM, Director of 4 Clinical diagnostic laboratories at Baylor, ASRM president). Dr. Lamb was honored as the first recipient of the Distinguished Researcher Award by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in recognition of her lifelong achievements in reproductive research, the Ramon Gutierras Lecture, the American Urological Association’s award for her contributions to Urology, and The Distinguished Andrologist Award from the American Society of Andrology. She is Past- President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. She is past- President of the Society for Male Reproduction and Urology of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and served on the ASRM executive Board. She is past- President of the Society for the Study of Male Reproduction of the American Urological Association, Society for Basic Urologic Research and past-Secretary and Past President of the American Society of Andrology. She trained 86 M.D., Ph.D., MD/PhD fellows (9 are now department chairmen), 14 residents, 11 graduate/MD, Ph.D. students, many residents, high school and more than 54 undergraduate students. In 2007 she received awards for mentoring from the American Urological Association Foundation Distinguished Mentor, the Endocrine Society Laurate Outstanding Mentor Award, The Christina Manthos Mentoring Award from the Society of Women in Urology, the Faculty Educator Award for Extraordinary Contributions and Mentorship in the Urologic Basic Sciences (Baylor College of Medicine), Cornell-China Circle Lifetime Mentorship Award and Kavoussi Family Outstanding Teacher Award from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Dr. Lamb supports research experience for trainees at every level of their career (graduate and medical students, post-doctoral MD or PhD fellows). Opportunities exist for training in the laboratory for evaluation of patient genitourinary birth defects including state-of-the-art clinical diagnostics, research using a forward genetics approach to define the genomic and/or genetic bases of men’s reproductive health defects including human male infertility, the functional approach to re-capitulate the human phenotype with mouse models prove causation beyond association, and opportunities for interdisciplinary research in male children and men’s health (bioinformatics, biomedical engineering, nanotechnologies, clinical urology, structural birth defects, pathology, endocrinology, psychology and sexual medicine and genetics and genomics. To learn more about Dr. Lamb's work, please click on the link listed above to view her full profile on the Children's Mercy website.