Researcher Stories
Dr. Ron Buckanovich: Getting to the Root of Ovarian Cancer
“We think by using human tissue around the tumor in a mouse, that will change the paradigm of how we screen drugs. When you grow a human tumor in human tissue, it is much more resistant to most of those therapies.”
Learn MoreDr. Kyle Orwig: Preserving Fertility of Cancer Patients
“I think our job as educators is to get people to think beyond the boundaries about what reproductive medicine could look like tomorrow.”
Learn MoreDr. Judith Yanowitz: Studying Meiosis and its link to fertility
“Having a healthy egg isn’t just about a healthy egg,” It’s about a healthy 90-year-old woman. What we as women provide into our developing eggs influences not just a happy, healthy baby being born, but a baby that has a long-term prognosis for health.”
Learn MoreDr. Sharon Hillier: Empowering Women in the Developing World
“Our work is really trying to even the playing field — to give ALL women tools they control, that they use, that can empower them to take care of themselves.”
Learn MoreDr. Judith Yanowitz: Understanding the Environment’s Impact on Health
“It’s incredibly scary to realize that our germ cells are that sensitive to these exposures. But it’s more scary to think that we may have exposures today that aren’t impacting the fertility of our sons and daughters, but rather impacting our grandchildren’s ability to have children.”
Learn MoreDr. David Peters: Developing Prenatal Tests that are Safer, Less Invasive
“I felt that any risk of aborting a perfectly normal baby because of a diagnostic procedure was unacceptable. And that’s what really motivated me to explore alternatives.”
Learn MoreDr. David Peters: Harnessing DNA to Improve Clinical Treatment and Care
“Here we are, sort of in a new era of clinical chemistry. You think about your standard blood test that you have routinely at the doctor’s office, and the complexity of those tests, and the information content within the results is evolving rapidly. And a lot of the reason for that evolution is driven by this field.”
Learn MoreDr. Sharon Hillier: Fighting for Research on Medications Used During Pregnancy
“Even though over 80% of pregnant women use drugs sometime during their pregnancy, 95% of drugs are never tested in pregnant women.”
Learn MoreDr. Sharon Hillier: Normalizing the Language of Sex
“I’m one of ‘those’ people who tells them: The virus doesn’t care if you’re black or you’re white, rich or poor. It’s a virus.”
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