Arthur Arnold
University of California, United States
Biology of Sex Differences considers manuscripts on all aspects of the effects of sex on biology and disease.
Sex has profound effects on physiology and the susceptibility to disease. The function of cells and organs depends on their sex, determined by the interplay among the genome and biological and social environments. The study of sex differences is a discipline in itself, with its own concepts and methods that apply across tissues.
Males and females can differ rather remarkably in their basic physiology and susceptibility to disease. Biology of Sex Differences, the official journal of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences, is a forum for research and discussion of these sex differences, both in animal models and in the clinic. The study of sex differences is a field of its own, with concepts and experimental approaches that are not necessarily well represented in journals specializing in specific diseases or areas of physiology. Biology of Sex Differences, where published papers are quickly available worldwide at no cost to the reader, disseminates reports on the factors that contribute to sex differences in various organ systems and models of disease.
Arthur P. Arnold is currently a Distinguished Professor of Integrative Biology and Physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles and Director of the UCLA Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology. Previously, he has held the position of Inaugural President of the Society of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, and has been named fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has also been awarded the SBN's Daniel S. Lehrman Lifetime Achievement Award.
Art Arnold received an AB degree from Grinnell College and PhD from the Rockefeller University. His research focuses on factors that cause sex differences in phenotype and disease in vertebrates. He has contributed to the discovery and development of several vertebrate models for studying sexual differentiation, which have uncovered direct effects of gonadal hormones and sex chromosome factors on sexual phenotypes
Formerly Secretary of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences, he is the first Editor-in-Chief of Biology of Sex Differences.
