2022-2025 SSR Board of Directors
Julie Kim, PhD
Dr. Kim has been a member of SSR since 1995, first as a postdoctoral fellow and throughout her career. SSR has been her home society even as her research branched out into cancer and endocrinology. Within SSR, Dr. Kim has served as Reviewing Editor of Biology of Reproduction since 2013, was organizer and chair for the ASRM-SSR Pre-conference Workshop, Organizer & Chair of the ASRM-SSR Symposium 2020 as well as Chair of the SSR Nominating Committee. For the greater Reproductive Biology community, Dr. Kim was an enthusiastic supporter of Frontiers in Reproduction, serving as laboratory assistant for a two week module on Implantation of the six week course. She served in the Program Committee as SRI, on advisory boards for research programs involving women’s health, including the Botanical Research Center for Women’s Health at UIC, and Organotypic Models for predictive toxicology at Vanderbilt-Pittsburgh. Dr. Kim served on the NIH Integrative and Clinical Endocrinology and Reproduction (ICER) study section as a regular member. She is also an active member of the Society of Reproductive Investigation (SRI), American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), and the Endocrine Society. She currently serves are Director for Northwestern’s Center of Reproductive Science alongside Dr. Francesca Duncan. Learn More About Julie
T Rajendra Kumar, PhD

I have served SSR in various roles as Biology of Reproduction Editorial Board Member (2002-2004), Board of Reviewing Editors (2013-2017), Associate Editor (2017- 2021), Associate Editor for Reviews (2021-204), Annual Meeting Symposia and Platform Session Chair - Growth Factors and Hormone Action (2003), Gene regulation in the HPG axis (2006), Neuroendocrinology & Behavior (2007), Gonadotropins (2013), Co-Chair & Leader, HORMONES Module (2013), Neuroendocrine Module (2014), and Male Reproductive Tract: Testis Development & Function (2010). My service includes as Member on Education Committee (2003-2005), Reproduction and the Environment Committee (2008-2012), Program Committee (2013-2014), Nominating Committee (2015), Chair, Nominating Committee (2016-2017), Representative, SSR booth at the ASRM Annual Meeting (2018), Member and Co-Chair, SSR Awards Committee (2019-2022) and Sub-Committee on Selection of SSR Distinguished Fellows (2019). I served as the Team Leader, and Abstract Evaluation Committee (2013, 2017, 2018-2022). I served the greater reproductive biology community as an instructor at the Frontiers in Reproductive Biology course, and as a member of > 35 national and international grant review panels for NIH and other funding agencies that support reproductive biology research. I served as Chair of reproductive biology symposia at the Endocrine Society Annual Meetings. I have established the Makowski Annual Award for the best Masters Student in Reproductive Sciences and Medicine at Northwestern University, the Makowski Summer Scholar Award for training students in Reproductive Genetics and the Makowski Award for the best platform presentations by pre-doctoral fellows at the SSR Annual Meetings. Learn More About Raj