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Oncofertility on Eight Forty-Eight!

August 26, 2009
efo101

Recently, WBEZ Chicago's Eight Forty-Eight came to the Oncofertility Consortium to interview Dr. Woodruff about fertility preservation for cancer patients.  While the interview mainly discussed new techniques that will provide hope for cancer patients facing potential infertility, the interview also discussed the Illinois Women's Health Registry and the Oncofertility Saturday Academy.

From the WBEZ website:

Last year, Dr. Teresa Woodruff won a $21 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to create the Oncofertility Consortium. There she hopes to develop new fertility treatments for people who have undergone treatment for cancer. While many people can survive a cancer diagnosis, the treatments can destroy fertility. Dr. Woodruff runs The Woodruff Lab at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and also runs the Oncofertility Saturday Academy. It brings young women from a small high school on Chicago’s South Side into the lab to learn basic biology and clinical medicine.

The audio of the interview is included!

Eight Forty-Eight Interview

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  • General

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  • cancer, clinical research, Fertility Preservation, Institute for Women's Health Research, Oncofertility, Oncofertility Saturday Academy, OSA, Woodruff Lab

Introducing - Greg Dolin

August 20, 2009
Oncofertility Consortium

Greg Dolin

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Hello all. I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself.
I am a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at the George Washington University School of Law. Previously, I was affiliated with Northwestern University Law School, which is how I got involved in the...

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  • Introductions

Introducing Rachel Smith

August 14, 2009
Oncofertility Consortium

Rachel Smith

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I am a graduate student in Dr. Lonnie Shea’s group investigating biomaterials for regenerative medicine. I have just completed my first year of graduate school in the department of chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern University. I did my undergraduate studies at...

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  • Introductions

Introducing Mandy Redig

August 14, 2009
Oncofertility Consortium

Amanda Redig

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Hello - my name is Mandy Redig and I'm an MD/PhD student in my final year of medical school at Northwestern.  I moved to Chicago in the summer of 2003, and several years later I have now completed my PhD in cancer biology and am looking forward to residency interviews this...

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  • Introductions

Teresa Woodruff on WGN Chicago

August 10, 2009
tsk176

Teresa Woodruff, director of the Oncofertility Consortium, was interviewed on WGN-TV, Chicago about follicle maturation for cancer and fertility research.

In the video interview from August 5th, Teresa talks about isolating individual follicle cells and storing them in a 3D gel similar to the ovary...

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  • In the news, Research

Call for Abstracts!

August 7, 2009
Jacqueline Kestler

The annual Oncofertility Consortium Conference is September 13-15, 2009 in Chicago at Prentice Women's Hospital. The Oncofertility Consortium is seeking abstract submissions for the poster session (video and traditional posters) for work related to the field of fertility preservation. The deadline...

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  • Conferences, General, Meetings

Introducing Jacqueline de la Cruz

August 3, 2009
Jacqueline Kestler

Hi! I'm Jacqueline de la Cruz (you can also call me Jackie) and I just joined the Oncofertility Consortium in June as a Clinical Research Coordinator. I recently completed my MPH in Maternal and Child Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago, after having received my BA in Human Biology at...

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  • Introductions