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Sheldon J. Segal is a distinguished scientist at the Population Council. He established the Council's biomedical research laboratories in 1956 and developed the ICCR in 1970. As Council vice-president and its director of its biomedical research, he led the development of modern IUDs, implant contraception (Norplant® and Jadelle®), as well as the initial work on contraceptive vaginal rings, intrauterine systems (Mirena®), contraceptive vaccines, and contraceptives for men. He left the Council in 1978 to establish and direct the Rockefeller Foundation's Population Sciences Program and returned to the Council in 1991. A member of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine and recipient of several honorary degrees and other awards of recognition, Segal is a founding director (and current trustee) of the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy and serves as chairman of the board of trustees of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts | 