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Teresa Woodruff on WGN Chicago

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Categories: Blog, In the news, Research
Tags: clinical research
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’s environment where…
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Dr. Clarisa Gracia highlighted in the media

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, In the news, Introductions, Oncofertility
Tags: cancer, clinical research, Fertility Preservation, Introduction, Oncofertility
Dr. Clarisa Gracia, an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, was recently pictured on the cover of Philadelphia Magazine and listed as one of the top doctors under 40 in Philadelphia, thanks to her work in Oncofertility. See…
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Time Magazine quotes Feb. 26 NEJM article

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Categories: Blog, Fertility Preservation, In the news, Oncofertility, Research
Tags: clinical research, fertility, Fertility Preservation, infertility, New England Journal of Medicine, Oncofertility, ovarian biology
On March 10th, Time Magazine published an article that mentioned Oncofertility Consortium members and research recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. A Hope to Prolong Fertility: Ovarian Transplants describes the choices faced by Stephanie Yarber. Yarber was diagnosed with premature ovarian failure at…
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Introducing Shauna Gardino

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Categories: Blog, General, Introductions, Oncofertility, Research
Tags: clinical research, ethics, legal, quality of life, religion, social science
My name is Shauna Gardino and I am clinical research coordinator at the Oncofertility Consortium. I manage the portfolio of social science studies related to fertility preservation for cancer patients. There are five current social science initiatives that provide a vital perspective of the social…
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