Andrzej Bartke

Dr. Bartke is a Professor in the Department of Physiology at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. He is a renowned researcher who has studied the effects of hormones on growth, aging, and reproduction in mammals. He is an exceptionally productive research scientist with over 500 publications in scientific journals and books.

Dr. Bartke is recognized for his primary contributions in understanding much of what is currently known about photoperiod effects on reproduction in seasonal species, the role of the pituitary hormone prolactin in both male and female reproduction, the intricate changes in the liver that are caused by growth hormone, and probable mechanisms for the devastating diabetogenic effects of hypersecretion of growth hormone. He has published extensively on the relationship between longevity extension in mice carrying the hypopituitary dwarf mutation and the role of endocrine regulation of aging by insulin-like signals. Dr. Bartke received his magister degree (the equivalent of a master's degree) in biology (zoology) at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, in 1962, and his Ph.D. in zoology (genetics) at the University of Kansas in 1965.