WE ARE CHANGING THE WAY THE WORLD TREATS WOMEN
Award-Winning Care. Pioneering Research. Lasting Legacies.
We are setting the bar for ob-gyn care while breaking ground in research and training the next generation of women's health champions. From launching a biobank to study endometriosis and other conditions, to forging a virtual platform connecting patients directly to specialists, to training future leaders in women's health — it's all happening here.
In Partnership with UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital
Located right across the street from Magee-Womens Research Institute, UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital is one of the nation’s top hospitals specializing in gynecologic and obstetric services. UPMC Magee also combines a wealth of specialty services for men and women, including cardiology, geriatrics, urology, bone and joint, and bariatric surgery.
Rock the Future of Women’s Health!
Spend an evening with singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge at the 2024 Women Who Rock™ Benefit Concert presented by Gibson Gives on Wednesday, August 28 at Stage AE. The show will feature a special set by Pittsburgh’s own DJ Femi and actress-singer Margot Bingham as event emcee. Every ticket sold directly supports life changing research at Magee-Womens Research Institute.
Attend the Magee-Womens Summit
This November 13 and 14 in Pittsburgh, we’re gathering top research scientists, clinicians, hospital administrators, public health advocates, and industry leaders for two days of talks surrounding the world of women’s health. Join us in person or virtually for the Magee-Womens Summit — a groundbreaking exchange of ideas to bring women’s health research to the forefront of scientific inquiry.
From woman-controlled HIV protection to therapies that could prevent the recurrence of ovarian cancer, we are helping to solve real-world problems and impacting women’s lives. And the potential is boundless. Anything is possible when the country’s largest women’s research institute partners with a world-class women’s hospital.
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We accelerate discoveries in stem and germ cell biology to unlock the mysteries—and enormous medical potential—of the very beginnings of life.
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We study maternal health and fetal and placental development to ensure healthy mothers and babies. And those first nine months can actually affect our entire lives.
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Hundreds of millions of women are affected every year. We are developing new therapies for STDs, including a groundbreaking study that is putting women in control of preventing HIV.
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From family planning and safer contraception to postmenopausal health, we focus on the incredible and sometimes challenging adventure that is a woman’s life.
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Treatments for infertility are safer and more effective than ever. And major breakthroughs are coming that will help even more couples who are struggling to conceive.
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What if there was a vaccine for ovarian cancer? Here, we are making tremendous strides in the detection, treatment and yes, prevention of women’s cancers.
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We study behavioral science, patient-provider communication and health service outcomes to improve access to affordable, quality health care for women—especially women at risk.
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Women are Different Than Men.
From how they present symptoms to the way their brains work. The thing is, most research has sidestepped sex differences, studying men and applying the findings to women.
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