Recorded on June 11, 2021, MIT’s Professor Linda Griffith and Michigan State University’s Dr. Stacey Missmer discussed endometriosis clinical studies and answered questions from the webinar attendees, including, “How can patients contribute to a clinical study or trial?” and “Why don’t we know more about endometriosis?” About The Science of Endometriosis Hosted by scientists, clinicians, and…
The August 18, 2021, episode of Vox Media’s Unexplainable podcast is called “The Mystery of Endometriosis” and features the voices of 14 people discussing their experience with the disease. They share their earliest memories of the condition, the difficulties they had being diagnosed, their frustration when they realized that there was no cure (and, for some, no…
PHOTO: Inequality has cost women the benefits of thousands of “lost” medical inventions. Ron Levine/Stone via Getty Images CGR Director Linda Griffith is featured in this recent blog by Rem Koning of Harvard Business School. He discusses a recent study showing how demographic inequities — in this case fewer female and minority inventors — has resulted…
Please join us on Sunday, July 11, 2021, from 4 to 5 p.m. (ET), as we kick off the virtual series, “The Science of Endometriosis.” MIT’s Linda Griffith and Michigan State University’s Stacey Missmer will lead a lively discussion titled Endometriosis 101 – Clinical Studies. They’ll answer questions including, What is a clinical study and how does it differ…
Ada daSilva/Getty Images The May 13, 2021 edition of NPR’s Fresh Air show features Terry Gross interviewing CGR Director Linda Griffith. They discuss endometriosis, the important work CGR researchers are doing to understand and address this widespread disease, and how it could hold clues to tissue regeneration. Also available as a podcast
Dr. Griffith at home with her husband, Doug Lauffenburger, a systems biologist at M.I.T. Credit…Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times In this cover story of The New York Times Health Section, CGR Director Linda Griffith highlights the seriousness and prevalence of endometriosis. She discusses the important work CGR researchers are doing to understand and address…
The inspiration for the Center for Gynepathology Research (CGR) started with a simple question in 2007, to CGR Director Linda Griffith, from Susan Whitehead, a member of the MIT Corporation: Can you explain how your work specifically benefits women? Professor Griffith’s response: Susan asked this question in the context of my accepting an invitation to…
The following news was released by the National Academy of Engineering, Washington, D.C., on January 7, 2021: The National Academy of Engineering announced today that the 2021 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education will be awarded to Linda Griffith and Douglas Lauffenburger of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) “for the establishment of a…
CGR investigators are leading a new collaboration to study mechanisms of chronic Lyme disease, which afflicts women more often than men. These studies will also illuminate general features of immune differences between the sexes, and chronic inflammatory diseases in general. We are not enrolling patients directly at MIT, but accessing samples through established Lyme clinical…
Caitlin Bradbury was 12 years old when the pain started, a year before her period. She felt an incessant, piercing burn in her lower abdomen, along with nausea. After her menstrual cycle began at age 13, the pain continued during every period. The bleeding was so heavy, Caitlin tried using multiple supersize tampons at once,…