We are excited to announce that the Sixth Open Endoscopy Forum (OEF) will be held in Cambridge, MA, on September 22-24, 2023, after a three-year hiatus due to Covid-19. Please visit the OEF website for more information (updated often). Registration information will be available there soon. It wasn’t a coincidence that we selected today, #WomensHealthResearchDay, to announce the…
MIT event panelists discuss how science can help doctors better diagnosis and treat women’s diseases A panel of expert clinicians, scientists, and patients from the MIT community recently reacted to a screening of the endometriosis documentary Below the Belt and explained why excision surgery “is not the answer” for patients with endometriosis. Nearly 300 people attended the Sept. 14, 2022,…
Be sure to read CGR Director Linda Griffith’s article, “‘FemTech’ and a moonshot for menstruation science,” featured in the October 30, 2022 Boston Globe magazine as part of the annual “Women & Power” package. Griffith discusses the need for more research and funding for women’s health and describes how “…existing studies barely scratch the surface of a…
If you want a powerful crash course on why and how MIT is developing groundbreaking new therapies to treat endometriosis, you’ll want to watch this TEDx talk. In it, CGR Director Linda Griffith discusses how MIT researchers and others are “deconstructing and reconstructing the patient” as a way to develop new therapies. About 10 percent of women have…
You are invited to a Nov. 2, 2022, in-person or virtual seminar on sex differences in lung disease with Lisa Henske and Dawn DeMeo (see bios below). In-person attendees are invited to a networking reception following the seminar, featuring e-posters and a panel led by Henske, DeMeo, and Sarah Fortune. This event is part of…
Photo credit Ceal Capistrano “AI for endometriosis? If only there were data!” More than 70 MIT students, faculty, staff, and alumni gathered in MIT’s Killian Court recently to “Stand Up and Be Counted (for Women’s Health),” with a strong representation of individuals concerned about gynecology disorders such as endometriosis and adenomyosis. An estimated 20-25 percent of MIT…
If you will be in the Boston area on Wednesday evening, Sept. 14, 2022, we hope you will join us for a special event – an advance screening of the film about endometriosis, called Below the Belt. The screening will be followed by an expert panel discussion with clinicians, scientists, and patients from the MIT community…
A recent segment on WBUR’s Radio Boston, called “Two women share what it’s like living with endometriosis,” opens with Boston University student Yaël Krinsky and her father Alvin describing Yaël’s yearslong journey with endometriosis and the toll it has taken on her and their family. The segment continues with host Tiziana Dearing interviewing CGR Director…
Why are females more likely to survive COVID-19 but at greater risk of developing chronic disease? Historically, why have women and nonbinary people typically been excluded from clinical trials? How do we understand how sex differences affect everyone? What is the interplay between sex chromosomes and sex hormones? …Why has it taken the scientific community so…
WebMD’s October 28, 2021, Health Discovered podcast, “Endometriosis: When Period Pain Isn’t Normal,” features a discussion with CGR Director Linda Griffith. Host Carrie Gann explains how millions of people live with the severe pain of endometriosis, but most wait years for a diagnosis. Dr. Griffith tells listeners why that happens, and the toll that endometriosis…