Ashok Agarwal, PhD, HCLD, is the Director of the Clinical Andrology Laboratory and Reproductive Tissue Bank, and the Director of Research at the Reproductive Research Center. He holds these positions at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, where he is a Professor at the Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and, since 1993, Senior Staff in the Glickman Urological Institute, Departments of Obstetrics-Gynecology, Anatomic Pathology, and Immunology.

Dr. Agarwal received his Ph.D. in 1983 from Banaras Hindu University, India. He did his post-doctorate training in Reproductive Biology under a fellowship from The Rockefeller Foundation at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, where he was an Instructor in Surgery and then an Assistant Professor of Urology at Harvard Medical School from 1988 to 1993. Dr. Agarwal is a board certified Clinical Laboratory Director in Andrology by the American Board of Bioanalysis.

Dr. Agarwal has published over 300 scientific papers and review articles in peer reviewed scientific journals, authored 30 book chapters, and presented over 630 papers at both national and international scientific meetings. He is a member and office bearer of several professional societies including: American Society for Reproductive Medicine, American Society of Andrology, American Urological Association, Society for the Study of Male Reproduction, Society for the Study of Male Reproduction and Urology, and Society for Basic Urologic Research. Dr. Agarwal is on the Editorial Board of the Annals of Saudi Medicine, Clinics, Fertility and Sterility, Indian Journal of Experimental Biology, National Journal of Andrology, Reproductive Biology & Endocrinology and Reproductive Sciences Journal. He is also an ad hoc reviewer for the American Journal of Reproductive Immunology, Andrologia, Annals of Clinical Biochemistry, Asian Journal of Andrology, Basic and Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology, Biochemical Genetics, Biology of Reproduction, BMC Clinical Pathology, Chemico-Biological Interaction, Clinica Chimica Acta, Drugs in R&D, Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, European Surgical Research, European Urology, Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy, Free Radical Biology & Medicine, Human Molecular Genetics, Human Reproduction, Human Reproduction Update, Indian Journal of Medical Science, International Journal of Andrology, International Journal of Fertility, International Journal of Impotence Research, Iranian journal of Reproductive Medicine, Journal of Andrology, Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, Journal of Biosciences, Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research, Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, Journal of Urology, Lancet, Leukemia and Lymphoma, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Clinical Practice Urology, Redox Report, Reproduction, Reproductive Toxicology, Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine and Urology.

Dr. Agarwal is active in basic and clinical research and his laboratory has trained more than 100 basic scientists and clinical researchers from the United States and abroad. In addition, 66 medical, undergraduate, and high school students have worked in his laboratory. Dr. Agarwal has been invited as a guest speaker to over 20 countries for important international meetings. He has directed more than a dozen Andrology Laboratory and ART Workshops in recent years. Over 35 candidates have received hands on training in ART and Andrology in his center.

Dr. Agarwal is the recipient of 65 research grants. His current research interests include the role of molecular markers (oxidative stress, DNA integrity, and apoptosis) in the pathophysiology of male and female reproduction, cryopreservation of sperm in patients with cancer, epididymal physiology, and pathophysiology of sexual dysfunction.