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New Oncofertility Publication from the Colorado Oncofertility Program!
May 8, 2014
The Colorado Oncofertility Program has written an article which was published in the most recent volume of Journal of Cancer Survivorship. The article, “Seamless integration of clinical care and research in an innovative fertility preservation program: the Colorado Oncofertility Program model“, is written by Kiara…
New Publication from Oncofertility Consortium Members – A small field for fertile science: the low visibility of reproductive science in high impact journals
March 31, 2014
The Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics recently published a report by Oncofertility Consortium® members, Francesca Duncan, PhD, Benjamin Derman, MD, and Teresa K. Woodruff, PhD, entitled “A small field for fertile science: the low visibility of reproductive science in high impact journals”. This article assesses…
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine – Year in Review 2013
February 5, 2014
The News Center of the Feinberg School of Medicine released their 2013 Year in Review highlighting the growth and success of the previous year. A new gentler chemotherapy drug in the form of nanoparticles has been designed by Northwestern Medicine® scientists, including our very own Dr.…
Northwestern and OHSU Designated as Centers of Excellence for AYA Oncology
November 15, 2013
Last week, the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern and the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health Sciences University were designated the first-ever Centers of Excellence in Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology care. According to the Health Care Rights Initiative, which launched the…
Announcing new Book on Oncofertility Communication: Sharing Information and Building Relationships across Disciplines
October 24, 2013
Oncofertility Consortium is proud to announce the publication of its fourth book, Oncofertility Communication: Sharing Information and Building Relationships across Disciplines. The book, published by Springer, describes the corridors of collaboration between disciplines that are needed to bridge fields that are not traditionally…
First Human Live Birth Reported from Vitrified Ovarian Tissue
October 2, 2013
Reproductive scientists across the globe have been discussing the news that a group from Japan has just reported the first human birth from previously vitrified ovarian tissue. The article, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), describes the research by Kawamuraa,…