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…
Professors Linda Griffith and Feng Zhang along with Guillermo Ameer SCD ’99, Darrell Gaskin SM ’87, and Vamsi Mootha recognized for contributions to medical sciences, health care, and public health. Julie Pryor | McGovern Institute for Brain Research Publication Date: October 20, 2021 The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has announced the election of 100…
MIT engineers under the leadership of CGR Director Linda Griffith, in collaboration with scientists at Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, have developed a new way to grow tiny replicas of the pancreas, using either healthy or cancerous pancreatic cells. Their new models could help researchers develop and test potential drugs for pancreatic cancer, one of…
IMAGE: A surgeon in Nice, France, begins a procedure to help diagnose suspected endometriosis in a patient. BSIP/UNIVERSAL IMAGES GROUP VIA GETTY IMAGES A magnificent piece of sleuthing in the endometriosis world….superb work from Krina Zondervon and an international team pointing to a possible new endometriosis drug target **in some subset of patients**. Read the…