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Eric Palmer was born in Paris, France, on March 6, 1947. He received his first horse at age 11, and has been training, riding and showing horses since. In 1968, Dr Palmer earned the Engineer of Agronomy (Ingénieur Agronome) degree from the Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon, now incorporated in the prestigious AgroParisTech. He joined the Corps of the French State in the National Institute of Rural Engineering, Water and Forestry, to which the French National Studs belonged, in 1970. Dr Palmer began working for the National Studs at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) at Nouzilly in 1971, under the leadership of renowned reproductive scientist François duMesnil duBuisson. Dr Palmer starting research on equine reproductive physiology and biotechnology in 1971, and went on to found the Equine Reproduction research unit at INRA in 1981. Dr Palmer’s early work concentrated on mare endocrinology and synchronisation of oestrus and ovulation. Dr Palmer’s father was a physician working in obstetrics and gynaecology, who in fact did research with Dr duMesnil du Buisson on animal models for celioscopy. Through his father, Dr Palmer became aware of the early use of ultrasonography for reproductive evaluation in women. He applied this to the horse, publishing, with coauthor Marc-Antoine Driancourt, the first report on transrectal ultrasonography of the reproductive tract in the mare (Palmer and Driancourt 1980). This procedure went on to revolutionise reproductive research and clinical breeding management in the mare, and to later serve as the cornerstone of more advanced techniques such as transvaginal ultrasound-guided follicle aspiration. Drs. Palmer and Driancourt went on to explore photoperiodism in the mare, establishing that a pulse of light could serve as well as did continued light to stimulate the onset of ovarian activity in anestrus mares (Palmer et al. 1982), a finding that had widespread translation into clinical equine breeding management. With his co-workers, Dr Palmer explored the previously debated effects of hCG administration on antibody production and loss of ovulatory function in mares (Bour and Palmer 1984) and developed alternatives to hCG treatment for stimulation of ovulation in mares (Duchamp et al. 1987). Dr Palmer’s equine unit at INRA also did pioneering work on preservation of stallion semen, includingmethods for both cooling and freezing. The semen extenders developed by INRA during that time, notably INRA96 (Batellier et al. 1998) have become among the most widespread semen extenders used in the equine industry. With Daniel Lagneaux, Dr Palmer did some of the first work evaluating embryo transfer in pony mares, including the first report on use of anestrus, hormone-treated mares as embryo recipients (Lagneaux and Palmer 1993). With Jean-François Bruyas and others, the group performed some of the first critical studies on the effects of freezing on the equine embryo (Bruyas et al. 1993). From these publications, it is apparent that essentially all of the French scientists of that generation who have specialised in equine reproduction trained with Dr Palmer. Working with Dr Jaqueline Bézard and other colleagues, Dr Palmer started research on equine oocytes, first working with methods for recovery of oocytes from live mares by follicular puncture through the flank (Palmer et al. 1987). Using this technique, they established that the equine oocyte was in metaphase II within the preovulatory follicle before ovulation (King et al. 1987). This was a breakthrough finding, as it presented data to correct textbook descriptions of the time that stated that equine oocytes were ovulated as primary oocytes. Continuing with his research on equine oocytes, in 1991, Dr Palmer was senior author on the landmark paper reporting the first successful equine in vitro fertilisation resulting in a live foal (Palmer et al. 1991). This work was awarded the Hamilton-Thorn Award for scientific advances at the International Symposium on Equine Reproduction (ISER) V in Deauville, France, in 1990. Dr Palmer’s presentation of the paper was additionally memorable because it was accompanied by a visit from the foal itself, along with its recipient dam, into the lecture hall at the closing ceremonies of the meeting! Notably, the foal, along with a foal produced via the same IVF techniques from Dr Palmer’s group at INRA the next year (Bézard 1992), remain the only two offspring yet produced by conventional IVF in the horse. The reported study incorporated CSIRO PUBLISHING

Recipient of the 2020 IETS Pioneer Award: Eric Palmer, Ingénieur Agronome