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Live Coverage of the Summit

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Categories: Blog, Conferences, Meetings
Tags: Conference, Live Coverage
Hello everyone! To watch our live coverage and to participate from wherever you are, just watch us on this post. The window below will update automatically once the Summit begins. Then just jump right in. We’ll also be tweeting so look out for updates on…
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Oncofertility Humanities Festival

Author image - Teresa K Woodruff, PhD By: Teresa K Woodruff, PhD -
Categories: Blog, General
Tags: Humanities, Lisa Campo-Engelstein
Dear Oncofertility Colleagues: Our second annual Oncofertility Reflections on the Humanities and Social Sciences summit starts tomorrow morning, July 22 at 9AM in the beautiful Norris Student Union on the Evanston campus of Northwestern University. Organized by Professor Laurie Zoloth and Dr. Lisa Campo-Engelstein, we…
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WIRED Magazine’s Article Receives Many Comments

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Categories: Blog, Conferences, Fertility Preservation, General, In the news, Meetings, Oncofertility, Research
Tags: clinical research, ethics, Fertility Preservation, Oncofertility, religion
WIRED magazine ran a story last week based on the research article published in the journal Human Reproduction received many comments. “A Fertility First: Human Egg Cells Grow Up in Lab” written by Hadley Leggett has already gotten 18 comments on the WIRED Web site. People were interested…
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NIH cites work done by Oncofertility Consortium


Categories: News
New Technique Could Sustain Cancer Patients’ Fertility Researchers Grow Immature Egg Cells in the Laboratory for 30 Days Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have completed a critical first step in the eventual development of a technique to retain fertility in women with…
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Oncofertility is Wired!


Categories: News
A new paper by members of the Oncofertility Consortium is featured in this week's Wired Magazine.  "A Fertility First: Human Egg Cells Grow Up in Lab" talks about a new paper featured in Human Reproduction.  The new paper, titled In vitro grown human ovarian follicles…
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TOMORROW: The Oncofertility Consortium Presents Virtual Grand Rounds

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Categories: Blog, Conferences, Meetings
Tags: Conference, Fertility Preservation
The ONCOFERTILITY CONSORTIUM™ PRESENTS VIRTUAL GRAND ROUNDS The National Physicians Cooperative: Tales from the Front; Establishing a Comprehensive Fertility Preservation Program Lawrence Engmann, MD Lead Physician, Fertility Preservation Program Paul  Verrastro Senior Vice President Center for Assisted Reproductive Services and University of Connecticut Health Center…
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Introducing Min Xu

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Categories: Blog, Introductions
Tags: Introduction
Min Xu, PhD —– My name is Min Xu and I am a research assistant professor in the Oncofertility Consortium. I received my M.D. and Ph.D. in China, and more specifically, I was working in a clinical IVF lab for 5 years. During that time I helped many…
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“After Cancer-The Chance of Having Children”-Renata Cabrel


Categories: News
IstoE discusses how the Oncofertility Consortium is bringing new hope to cancer patients in Brazil.  The article also highlights how the Consortium’s patient information efforts, such as the Consortium’s blog and myoncofertility.org have helped spread the word to patients all over the globe.  The full…
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Introducing Sarah Kiesewetter

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Categories: Blog, Introductions
Tags: Introduction, Woodruff Lab
Sarah Kieswetter —– Hi! I’m Sarah Kiesewetter, one of the Technologists of the lab. I finished my Bachelor’s of Science (Animal Science) at the University of Illinois in 2006, and have been with the Woodruff lab ever since. I started out working with all of…
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NIH Oncofertility News Release

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, In the news, Oncofertility, Research
Tags: clinical research, Fertility Preservation, Oncofertility, vitro follicle growth
Today the National Institutes of Health published a news released based on an article about Oncofertility research from the journal Human Reproduction “In vitro grown human ovarian follicles from cancer patients support oocyte growth” by Min Xu, Susan Barrett, Erin West-Farrell, Laxmi Kondapalli, Sarah Kiesewetter, Lonnie…
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Second Annual Oncofertility Summit

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Categories: Blog, Conferences, Fertility Preservation, Meetings, Oncofertility, Research
Tags: Conference, humanities and social science, Oncofertility
The Second Annual Oncofertility Summit will take place at Northwestern University, Evanston Campus, from July 22-24, 2009. The theme of this year’s conference is reflections on Oncofertility from the humanities and social sciences. The goal of the conference is to bring together an interdisciplinary pool…
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More About the Oncofertility Summer Research Internships

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Categories: Blog, In the news, Oncofertility
Tags: biology, careers, internships, mentoring, Oncofertility, OSEP, stimulus, students, teachers
The Office of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Partnerships in the School of Education (OSEP) at NU is excited that a second high school biology teacher, David Bain, from Grayslake North High School in Illinois, will also be participating in the Onco internships. We look…
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Introducing Christine Babick Saqui

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Categories: Blog, General, Introductions, Oncofertility
Tags: education, Learning Sciences, marketing, Oncofertility, OSEP, publishing, SESP, STEM
I’m the project director for the Office of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Partnerships (referred to as “OSEP”) in the School of Education and Social Policy (SESP) on Northwestern’s Evanston campus. My MA is in linguistics from Columbia University and my BA is…
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Northwestern Story on Stimulus Funding for Young Women’s Science Research

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Categories: Blog, General, In the news, Oncofertility
Tags: clinical research, Oncofertility
The Northwestern University NewsCenter picked up the story we mentioned in the blog at the beginning of June called Obama gives money for Oncofertility research. They quote Dr. Kemi Jona who is the director of the Office of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Partnerships in…
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