William (bill) Wright PhD

Bill earned his Ph.D. in Biology from the State University of New York at Binghamton, working in the laboratory of Arthur Frankel. With Frankel, Bill performed some of the first analyses of androgen receptors in the testis. For a brief period, Bill also studied with Yves Clermont of McGill University. With Clermont, Bill became fascinated with the coordinated development of the different generations of the spermatogenic cells that surround a Sertoli cell.

He pursued this interest as a postdoctoral fellow at the Population Council in New York, under the mentorship of C. Wayne Bardin. He also worked with Martti Parvinen of the University of Turku, investigating how Sertoli cell function changes as the adjacent spermatogenic cells progress through the stages of the cycle of the seminiferous epithelium.