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

NYT article discusses endometriosis as a “key to unlocking some of biology’s greatest secrets”

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…

CGR Director Linda Griffith and CGR Collaborator Douglas Lauffenburger Awarded Top NAE Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education

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 Lead Collaboration to Study Chronic Lyme Disease

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…

Collaboration is Central to CGR’s Success

Bryan Bryson, MIT Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering, and CGR Director Linda Griffith, are pictured in a peritoneal fluid sample handoff. Bryson is a Macrophage Systems Biology collaborator with CGR, and the Bryson Lab conducts immune cell profiling. “Endometriosis is an enigmatic disease.” This phrase—found in scores of endometriosis research publications—reflects how hard it is…

Endometriosis and Adenomyosis Explained

What is endometriosis?Endometriosis is a condition that can cause chronic pelvic pain, especially at the time of menses. It isn’t just ‘bad periods.’ The disease affects one in 10 reproductive-aged women (aged 12-52)—an estimated 200 million individuals worldwide—and many often experience a decade-long delay in diagnosis. Currently, there is no known exact cause of endometriosis,…