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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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The Chicago Tribune Reports on the Inaugural Session of the Cardiology Summer Academy

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Categories: Blog, General, In the news, Oncofertility Saturday Academy
Tags: Institute for Women's Health Research, Oncofertility Saturday Academy, OSA, Young Womens Leadership
The inaugural session of the Cardiology Summer Academy just ended. It gave seniors from the Young Women’s Leadership Academy Charter School a chance to experience the world of the heart through real-life experiences at Northwestern Memorial’s Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute. The program’s success was noted in an article by the Chicago…
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Chicago Tribune: Young women are encouraged to be cardiologists


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Estela Mendez has become well-versed in the language of cardiology over the last few years, acting as a translator between her Spanish-speaking mother and the doctors treating her mother’s heart problems.  It was no surprise then that the teen was eager to apply for a…
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The Oncofertility Consortium Blog


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Swing by our blog to read and comment about Oncofertility related issues! Subscribe to the blog’s RSS feed in order to stay up to date. Visit the Oncofertility Consortium blog now!
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Marina Peluffo wins Abstract Award from ISIVF

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Categories: Blog, Conferences, Fertility Preservation, In the news, Meetings, Oncofertility, Research
Tags: Awards, clinical research, Fertility Preservation, Lecture, Oncofertility, vitro follicle growth
Marina Peluffo and Teresa Woodruff stand in front of the abstract poster Peluffo won an award for at the 15th World Congress on IVF in Geneva, Switzerland in April 2009. Marina Peluffo, an Oncofertility Consortium member from Portland, Oregon, won an award for her poster abstract “Cumulus Oocyte Complexes…
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Introducing Miranda Bernhardt

By: Miranda Bernhardt -
Categories: Blog, Introductions
I started in the Woodruff Lab in August ’08 as a graduate student working on my PhD. I earned my BS in Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development from the University of Minnesota in ’05 where I worked in a lab that studied capacitation, a process…
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Megan Faurot Interviewed in Medill Reports


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Megan discusses her transition from teaching science at Young Women’s Leadership Charter School to becoming the Director of Education Programs at the Institute for Women’s Health Research at Northwestern University.  Read the interview here.
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Topic of Oncofertility Summer Reading List: Global Perspectives on Reproduction

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Categories: Blog, General, Oncofertility
Tags: cancer, clinical research, ethics, fertility, Fertility Preservation, infertility, Oncofertility, publication, Woodruff Lab
Every summer, Teresa Woodruff sends out a summer reading list to the people in her lab. Because there isn’t much of a global perspective on Oncofertility yet, this year’s theme is “Global Perspectives on Reproduction” to prepare, hopefully, to create partnerships with the World Health…
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OHSU Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Program wins Fertile Hope National Center of Excellence Status award

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, In the news
Tags: Awards, AYA, cancer, Fertility Preservation
The Oregon Health and Science University Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Program at the Knight Cancer Institute was awarded Fertile Hope’s National Center of Excellence Status award on April 9th, 2009. Fertile Hope is a non-profit organization that strives to provide information on reproductive health for…
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Fertility and Sterility reviews Teresa Woodruff and Karrie Ann Snyder’s book

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, In the news, Oncofertility
Tags: Fertility Preservation, infertility, Oncofertility, publication
The American Society for Reproductive Medicine published a review of “Oncofertility: Fertility Preservation for Cancer Survivors” in the May 2009 volume of its journal Fertility and Sterility. Cover of the Oncofertility book reviewed by Dr. Jared Robins in the journal Fertility and Sterility Some exerpts…
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Obama gives money for Oncofertility research

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, In the news, Oncofertility, Oncofertility Saturday Academy, Research
Tags: clinical research, Northwestern University, Oncofertility, Oncofertility Saturday Academy, OSA, Young Womens Leadership
Two high school graduates from the Young Women’s Leadership Charter School will be able to do hands-on research on Oncofertility this summer, thanks to President Obama’s stimulus money, the Chicago Tribune reported today. The stimulus money is coming from the National Cancer Institute and will…
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