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September 12, 2012
July 3, 2012
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June 29, 2012
A video link -- to life. Using the same technology friends call up to i-Chat, researchers at Northwestern instead are conducting an i-Experiment.
"Good morning, Johan. Good morning "
Northwestern Medicine's Dr. Teresa Woodruff kicks off a morning meeting from her office. Just a short walk down the hall researcher Min Xu sits at his microscope in the lab.
"This is the follicle isolated about two weeks ago. My question is, what should we do in order to gain maturation of this o-cyte?"
And thousands of miles away at the University of Brussels, Dr. Johan Smitz offers his insight.
Min Xu, Onco-fertility researcher: "I see your point. Maybe we'll do a smaller biopsy of this follicle"
June 19, 2012
Why is the mystery of life so complex? Why do we need chemists, biologists, ethicists and engineers to unravel this mystery? How do we facilitate relevant research that transcends the boundaries of established disciplines? This program will explore how multidisciplinary teams are working together to understand the complicated process of fertility.
To answer these questions, the Women's Health Research Institute hosted a TEDx Program to explore these complex issues. For more information about TED and TEDxNorthwesternU, visit the website.
To view the archived webast of this event, please click here.
May 16, 2012
CHICAGO --- A scientist in Austria or elsewhere in the world can now peer into a Chicago collaborator’s microscope in real time while an experiment is being conducted at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
iExperiment is a novel portal developed at Northwestern where scientists from around the globe can watch and participate in experiments in reproductive health for the Oncofertility Consortium, a National Institutes of Health-funded research project to explore reproductive options for cancer survivors.
“This is the first time researchers can look into a colleague’s microscope from anywhere in the world,” said Teresa Woodruff, director and founder of the Oncofertility Consortium and chief of fertility preservation at Northwestern’s Feinberg School.
The new application of technology will speed the pace of scientific discoveries, she said. “A better way to do science is to share it in real time and have people look at the data as it is collected and to apply that knowledge in their own laboratories,” Woodruff said. “And that is a real paradigm shift in science.”
April 10, 2012
As a reproductive endocrinologist, Teresa Woodruff has spent the better part of her research career focusing on female reproductive health and infertility.
"What we're trying to ensure is that young people who have a cancer diagnosis and are going to be sterilized by that treatment or would have been sterilized by that treatment have options to protect their fertility for a later family that they might want to build,"she said.
As founder and director of the Institute for Women's Health Research, Woodruff has been an advocate for gender specificity in clinical trials, as a way to better understand the effects that various technologies and procedures have on women. As an educator and mentor, she encourages young women to pursue careers in the sciences, and helped develop the Oncofertility Saturday Academy to involve high school girls in college-level science.
To view the entire interview, please click HERE.
April 5, 2012
We tend to think of rural women's issues in the context of the developing world. But in America rural women also struggle. One of the big factors in rural poverty is the lack of access to decent health services. On March 30,2012, Worldview, a weekly talk show on WBEZ radio, a PBS affiliate, explored rural women’s health issues and needs in the U.S. with Sharon Green, the executive director of Northwestern University's Institute for Women's Health Research. She tells us about the difficulties of attaining proper care and how the Affordable Care Act could improve or complicate the lot of rural women. To listen to the interview CLICK HERE
February 22, 2012
CHICAGO --- The Northwestern University science mentoring program recently honored by President Barack Obama graduated 31 Chicago high school girls Feb. 18 at the Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center on the Chicago campus.
The mentoring program, called Oncofertility Saturday Academy, offers high school girls the chance to research and conduct experiments in fertility and cancer research with scientists and doctors at state-of-the-art Northwestern facilities. It inspires and prepares the young women to go to college and pursue careers in science and medicine.
“Our goal is to train the next generation of female leaders in science and medicine,” said Teresa Woodruff, program founder and the Thomas J. Watkins Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Woodruff also is director of the Institute for Women’s Health Research at the Feinberg School.
Graduates of the mentoring program have gone on to pursue a variety of science and health-related career paths since the program was founded in 2006.
Northwestern University program gives high school girls a chance to work with scientists and doctors
February 22, 2012
Chicago teenager Teanna Thomas moved a step closer over the weekend to her dream of becoming a pharmacist, graduating from a Northwestern University program that gives high school students a chance to work with scientists and doctors on cancer research.
Thomas, 18, and 30 other Chicago high school girls on Feb. 18 graduated from Northwestern’s science mentoring program, “Oncofertility Saturday Academy.”
Honored by President Barack Obama, it gives high school students a chance to conduct experiments in fertility and cancer research with scientists and doctors at state-of-the-art Northwestern facilities.
“The graduation was fun,” Thomas said of the ceremony at the Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center at 303 E. Superior St., on the university’s Chicago campus. “We did our speeches to reflect on what we learned.”
The Young Women’s Leadership Charter School senior said she learned a lot.
“The program was very helpful,” said Thomas. “It was a lot of hands-on.”
October 20, 2011
TURN BACK THE CLOCK: With area docs studying the treatment's benefits for older women and men, youth may no longer be wasted only on the young. To read this article, please click HERE.
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