Edited by
C. Van Cheng

2013

I learned about Sertoli cells and germ cells in the testis and the concept of the blood-testis barrier when I was a graduate student in the late 1970s in the laboratory of Professor Barry Boettcher, University of Newcastle, Australia. Thereafter, I joined the Laboratory of Dr. Wayne Bardin in the Population Council’s Center for Biomedical Research in New York and began my career to study the biology of the Sertoli cell with Drs. Wayne Bardin, Neal Musto and Glen Gunsalus, in particular how steroid transport proteins (e.g., androgen binding protein) in the testis versus similar functional proteins in the systemic circulation (e.g., testosterone-estradiol-binding globulin also known as sex hormone binding globulin) in regulating testicular function.