Prof. Andrea Cupp

Prof. Andrea Cupp is a Professor in the Department of Animal Science, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska, USA, with more than 30 years of international research experience in reproductive physiology and endocrinology. She received her BS in Animal Science from Virginia Tech in 1988 and her MS and PhD in Reproductive Physiology/Endocrinology from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1991 and 1994. She completed postdoctoral training in cellular and molecular endocrinology at the University of California–San Francisco and Washington State University.

She was Research Assistant Professor and Director of the Transgenic and Knockout Mouse Facility at the Center of Reproductive Biology, Washington State University, joined the Animal Science Department at Nebraska as Assistant Professor in 2000, and became Associate Professor in 2006 and Professor in 2011. In 2015 she was appointed to the Omtvedt Endowed Professorship. She serves as a reviewer and editorial board member for several journals.

An active member of the Society for the Study of Reproduction, the American Society of Animal Science, the American Society of Andrology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Nebraska Physiological Society, her research covers vascular development in gonadal morphogenesis and its effect on fertility, androgen excess in females, and the genomics of puberty in heifers. She has developed many animal models of male and female reproduction to benefit the livestock sector, and has authored over 140 publications in journals including Science, Biology of Reproduction and the Journal of Animal Science, with 6,200 citations.