Charles Sultan

With this issue, Dr. Charles Sultan serves as guest editor. He has compiled a number of experts on the topic of normal and abnormal sexual development. Our understanding of sexual development has made rapid progress with our accumulating knowledge of the human genome and molecular biology.

Dr. Sultan received his medical training at the University of Montpellier, France, School of Medicine. After a chief residency in pediatrics, he served as a postdoctoral fellow for 2 years in the Department of Pediatric Endocrinology at Johns Hopkins Medical Center. He returned to France and received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the School of Science at the University of Montpellier. Dr. Sultan was named a full professor of Developmental and Reproductive Medicine at the Montpellier School of Medicine. He has worked for the last 20 years in Montpellier to develop a Clinical Pediatric Endocrinology Unit at the University Hospital and, in parallel, an INSERM research group dedicated to the molecular genetics of the androgen receptor and disorders of sex differentiation.

Dr. Sultan and his group have published over 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals and over 100 reviews and chapters in books. Other achievements of Dr. Sultan include an invitation to give the annual Laron Lecture (1995), service as president of the European Society of Pediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) (1996), and membership on the editorial boards of Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, Hormones, Human Reproduction, the Journal of Endocrine Genetics, and Endocrinology (American Endocrinology Society). Dr. Sultan recently received the ESPE Research Award (Montreal, 2001).