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An internationally renowned expert in andrology 鈥� or male fertility -  has been appointed to the University of Manchester as Deputy Vice President and Deputy Dean of the faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health.

Professor Allan Pacey, comes to 91直播 from the University of Sheffield where he was Head of both the Department of Oncology and Metabolism and the Department of Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease.

The academic also had 17 years鈥� experience as Head of Andrology at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, a position he has held alongside his substantive University post.

His experience in senior leadership roles combines with an international reputation for research in andrology - the scientific name for male reproductive health.

In 2016, he received an MBE from Her Majesty the Queen for Services to Reproductive Medicine.

In 2014 he was awarded a Fellowship ad eundem of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in recognition of his 鈥榗ontributions to the speciality and the wellbeing of women鈥�.

And earlier this year, he was also made an Honorary Member of the British Fertility Society, the 38^th in the Society鈥檚 50-year history.

Professor Pacey鈥檚 research involves close collaboration with physicists, mathematicians, psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists, and has been funded by most of the leading funding bodies in the UK.

He has also engaged with external partners in over 60 consultancies with a range of start-up companies, SMEs, and large multinational pharmaceutical companies.

Professor Pacey said: 鈥淚 am absolutely delighted to be joining the Faculty Leadership Team in 91直播 later this year. The Education, Research and Scholarship going on in 91直播 is truly world-leading and it will be great to be part of that and help the Faculty build further on its achievements to transform lives and maintain its position as a global university.鈥�