Prof Linda Gay Griffith
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Engineering New Directions in Endometriosis @ MIT // Merging "Organs on Chips" with Systems Biology to Humanize Drug Development // Avid Gardener
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The path to solving problems in endometriosis is asking MIT undergraduates to solve part of the problem for a grade. They always want the top grade. Sophomore design class
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Honored to be chosen for upgrading the neighborhood of endometrial organoids to include stromal cells and vasculature, in synthetic ECM, building on the 2017 papers by Turco et al and Boretto et al
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MIT: Jump up to be the leader in Engineering Gynecology!
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Endometriosis - Science & Life (with a little detour into the human ear on the back of the mouse...). Interview on NPR Fresh Air with Terry Gross TOMORROW ! (2 pm Thursday, Boston & ATL)
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Huge congrats to Mikki Tal
@ImmunoFever
for her promotion today to Principal Scientist @ MIT in Biological Engineering! We are so lucky to have her here, leading the charge in Lyme research, and so many other things. Full speed ahead!
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Gorgeous picture of an endometrial gland to start your day courtesy
@JuanGnecco4
. Did you know that there are ~20x times more papers about Crohn's disease (afflicts ~1% of the US pop) than adenomyosis (endometrium in the myometrium, afflicts ~2-5% of US pop). Crazy, right?!
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My friend made me a portable uterus to kick off the Moonshot for Menstruation Science! Sand-filled, so I can gently bop those who say endometriosis / adenomyosis are benign.
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Yes, a substantial fraction of people - more females than males - have pre-formed PEG antibodies; we are still learning what this means for efficacy of therapeutics with PEGylated components.
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Not just this month, but every day, do I celebrate the impact of Manu Platt on my research program, beyond his postdoc papers: the example he lives, of joy in science, and spending time on the right problems. He inspired/s my gynecology life, then and now...forever grateful!
We celebrate
#BlackHistoryMonth
by recognizing Georgia Tech professor Manu Platt, who studies how cells sense, respond and remodel their immediate environments for repair and regeneration in health and disease, and translates that knowledge to address global health disparities
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In the exhausting war for fertility rights, the battle I choose is for perfect gynecological health. No woman should suffer the agony of IVF. While the political battle rages, join me to create support for "Menstruation Science" - the path to ultimate victory. Mars shot, now!
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Excellent update on the state of endometriosis research by
@clarewhatson
- thank you for keeping the spotlight on! One correction - Endo is not only a disease of people who menstruate, but also those who don't...post-Hx Endo is VERY real, and awful...
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Thank you to all the MIT students and colleagues who made the process of creating Biological Engineering
@MIT
a grand adventure, and especially to the students who are now out changing the world in so many creative and wonderful ways.
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Friday night lab fun: Duncan and Allison run the maiden voyage of the EndoChip, the platform for hosting microvascularized endometriosis lesions during simulated menstrual cycles, for evaluating their responses to hormones and drugs. Perfect! Let's crush endometriosis!
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Multiple postdoc positions available: Microfluidic models of endometrium (with Roger Kamm); microfluidic reproductive tissue manipulation (with Scott Manalis); immune-tissue cross talk in chronic inflammation (with Bryan Bryson and Doug Lauffenburger). Write griff
@mit
.edu
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A landmark conference, mandated by Congress, to address the NIH funding gaps in women's health. This Wednesday, Oct 20. The 3:30 pm talk will propose investment in gynecology as a way to infuse all of NIH with Biological Engineering approaches....
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Hooray for MIT Technology Review for featuring the potential of endometrial organoids to model disease - and for interviewing so many young investigators doing the actual hands-on work and creating the future of this field
@JuanGnecco4
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And....if you want to learn more about the science, about clinical studies, about genetic studies....anything practical about endometriosis for the lay audience...start with the NPR Fresh Air podcast, and sign up for the MIT CGR email on our website
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Hugely proud of former postdoc Shelley Peyton, whose energy is offscale and vision brilliant - looking forward to continued excellence and growth of a great department with her leadership.
We're excited to share that Shelly Peyton has been appointed Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering (
@tuftsbme
) starting July 1, 2024. Learn more about her knowledge and expertise in the fields of biomaterials and cancer bioengineering at .
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Lola's engineering of the immune system migth be useful for next Gen Endo treatments
Like, don't mess with
@LindaGGriffith1
! An all-around
#BadASS
! Excellent piece in the NYT!
Reinventing the Uterus, One Organoid at a Time
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Joyful news!! NIH is establishing an NIH-wide bioeng. center + they recruited a superb leader, Manu Platt
@DrPlattLab
. He is a pioneer in integrating the entire spectrum of molecular life sciences, devices, imaging, computation for tough diseases .
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Congrats to my MIT BE had student for winning Best Science Poster Award at the World Congress on Endometriosis! Defended the lab title won by Christi Cook last time in Vancouver!
#wce2023
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Am I dreaming? No, this is real! In these craaaaazy times, extraordinarily good news pokes its head out now and then - The time has come for that Moonshot for Menstruation Science to have its day in the sun!
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The greatest joy is seeing the next generation succeed independently. For patients everywhere, this is big, happy news - bravo, Gnecco lab! Good things on the horizon!
I am beyond excited to announce that I will be joining the Tufts University community this fall as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. 🐘The Gnecco Lab will focus on utilizing tissue engineering approaches to understand women's reproductive health.
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Be still my heart -
@sabraklein1998
revealed a magnificent surprise at the end of her brilliant SeXX and Immunity Series talk @ MIT yesterday: new GRC on Sex Differences in Immunity, April 2023 (Ventura)!
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Good news from MIT ChE - Prof Kris Prather will be a fantastic Dept Head, she is known world-wide for her research but at MIT, also for being a superb teacher (MacVicar Fellow!) and colleague.
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BMES finally has an Endometriosis Track - which will likely also accept adenomyosis (ok,
@MunsonOEL
?). Hooray! See you @ BMES2021!
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Congrats to
@JuanGnecco4
and our collaborators for publication of our guide to building the endometrium using a completely synthetic replacement for Matrigel. For a short time, the download is free!
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Stunning work by my MIT colleague Regina Barzilay, in detecting breast cancer early. Prime example of how to be an activist to improve the lives of women - roll up your sleeves, and fix the problems yourself. No marching needed :)
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From Jamaica to MIT and now off to Stanford leaving me with tears and a gorgeous rendition of the uterus. Desmond Edwards leaves a tremendous legacy at MIT. And his star is just ascending. Bittersweet goodbye to an amazing student.
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I get emails of gratitude/and or desperation from endometriosis patients every day. When I hold the lab to "the devil is in the details" standards, sometimes to grumbling, I am thinking of the tax dollars we get from those patients- we owe them hard work toward a cure.
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In addition to limiting hours to ending @ 5 pm, we (MIT BE) started a tradition of providing child care (big kiddie party) at the annual faculty dinner...parents enjoy the evening.. children could see who mom & dad work with, make friends, and leave a legacy of glitter :)
This is not my experience at MIT. My latest recurring meeting ends at 5:30 pm. I don't have any recurring weekend meetings. My department
@MITChemE
supports its parents thru time & finances. Excellent research, brilliant students, massive support. To me, "This is MIT."
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My fervent Mother's Day prayer: that MIT will support launch of a "Moonshot for Menstruation Science" this year, elevating gynecology research from a backwater to the new cool thing. And that
@elonmusk
will turn it into a "Mars shot". C'mon, MIT! This is your year to be
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Super fun science day with visit by
@KaraSpillerLab
, superb real-world seminar and inspiration for taming the wiley macrophage, especially in humans, to heal wounds, diagnose what the heck is happening in them, stop endometriosis, and more. Thank you, Kara!
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What will ARPA-H spend $100M on to speed solutions to women's health problems? It was inspiring to spend the day with creative wise entrepreneurs, academics, and patient advocates to come up with the slate of problems needing solutions.
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NIH is having a 2-day workshop to address "women in STEM" issues. And still - no RCDC code for adenomyosis! And nothing on the agenda related to the funding gaps in women's health. Elephant in the room, people! HERD of elephants! SMH!
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Microscope building party. Hooray for Christmas break. Will do mage blood vessels growing into endometriosis lesions then immune cells trafficking!
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I cannot praise
@ImmunoFever
enough for taking her machete to the thorny questions of sex differences in Immunity, especially Lyme and other chronic diseases. Huge thanks to Emily and Malcolm Fairbairn for believing in her (and us).
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The joy of teaching at MIT - seeing your former undergraduate advisee compete in the Olympics! She moved heaven and earth to get her credits in while training in South America most of the winter - with awe-inspiring dedication.
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Endometriosis meets its match in Edinburgh, a hub for innovation in thinking and doing. Great news about the advancing clinical trial for non-hormonal therapy by
@horne_research
and his colleagues
@p_saunder
New drug offers promising breakthrough for endometriosis patients.
A clinical trial for a drug typically used to treat metabolic diseases in children is moving into its second phase.
@maeve_cullinan
has the latest.
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@gradydoctor
@TuskegeeUniv
Inspiring story! What a great (and wise) dad you had. Never underestimate the joy of learning and using math. A universal language of love and hope for those who study and share it. Bonds made over math endure lifelong. He will always remember your dad.
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Menstruation Science! Who is interested in helping with a symposium/workshop for Feb 2024, with Hilary Critchley as lead speaker?! She will be here during part of her sabbatical! Email me or reply! (Pic of when we first met, in Florence @ SEUD!)
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Very excited to be joining a superb community of Lyme disease researchers, thanks to the vision and generosity of the MIT alumni family. A fantastic opportunity to illuminate both the broad mysteries of Lyme, and the question of why chronic Lyme skews female.
$2.14 million donation to MIT funds study of acute & chronic
#LymeDisease
. The project, led by Linda Griffith
@MITdeptofBE
will combine 4 research groups
@ragoninstitute
@MGH
,
@MIT
,
@Harvard
and
@ImmunoFever
w/ Stem Cell Bio & Regenerative Med
@Stanford
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Women's health has a forceful new advocate
@NIH
- he walks the walk. He bravely started
@DrPlattLab
working on sickle cell & - endometriosis! Low funding but HUGE societal need. His joyful outlook on helping others inspired my MIT CGR work. Still celebrating this!
Official announcement! Much love to my
@GeorgiaTech
and
@emorycollege
and thanks for the preparation for this next step with
@NIBIBgov
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The question burning in my brain night and day is how the endometrial epithelial cells get into smooth muscle and form such beautifully polarized hollow lumen structures. Here, in the myometrium -
@EpiMechFC
I really need your help. Postdoc open!
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Endometriosis/ endometrium -omics, pain mechanisms, and more at our first ever Gynecology Research and Development Workshop at MIT on Sept 22 (virtual option). We have an amazing line up and there will be focus on future challenges!
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MIT Biological Engineering Seniors win Audience Choice Award for their design project on treating menstrual cramps - amazing creativity, amazing team, next stop a start-up (I hope). And THEY dreamed up the application when assigned "personal care" by the prof. Hooray!
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Launching the MIT Moonshot for Menstruation Science with an incredible guest on Feb 22 @ 4 pm- Prof Hilary Critchley! She arrives tomorrow for a short sabbatical - ping me if you want a zoom for the talk or to meet with her!
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Thank you for the shout out Prof. Peyton! I remember writing one of your postdoc papers when I was recovering from one of the surgeries....good thing you were a good sport (and still are).
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3 MIT Postdoc positions in Immune-Tissue Interactions in Physiomimetic Systems - Microfluidics, tissue engineering, immunology, infection, with Griffith/Lauffenburger/Bryson/Trumper/Kamm lab collaboration
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With creativity and hard work, and collaboration with
@ImmunoFever
, the lab capped off 2022 with the first experiments of Borrelia (Lyme) interactions (purple) with 3D human microvessels (green). Stay tuned for 3D infection in endometrium and gut in 2023!
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I love that The Spouse is so deeply involved in pregnancy immunology. He makes sense of the data, in the most beautiful way. 27 years and I never tire of his insights into biology, from his brilliant applied math perspective. He cares about the biology - and makes it real.
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Science is like mosaic art - everyone puts in their tiles and a beautiful picture emerges. Make your tiles special - detailed and gorgeous. Trust that others are doing the same, so that the full picture emerges, to everyone's delight.
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Another win by the Barzilay-led team, in applying AI to radiology. She relishes a challenge, so now has her sights on the uterus and endometriosis / adenomyosis - arguably the Mt Everest of interpretation...cuz the data are so thin. Let's fix that!
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Mind blowing things beneath the surface...2022 will be a great year for blowing up endo/adeno, and launching the Gnecco lab!
What's beneath the surface? New ways to understand endometriotic disease coming soon in 2022.
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Today is the day I learn the details of a new NON-HORMONAL endometriosis drug (!!!!!!??!!) thanks to Medicon Valley Alliance and the BioInnovation Institute in Copenhagen. Soooo worth the flight!
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Academia has its hassles but undergrad students like Sarah Syed make it all worthwhile. She did a smashing job of her thesis presentation. Such a joy.
BE senior Sarah Syed presents her
@LindaGGriffith1
Lab research at the BE Undergraduate Research Symposium.
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Friday, Sept 22! An amazing endometriosis / adenomyosis / gynecology Research and Development Workshop @ MIT - for clinicians and scientists to come together! Learn more, including how to register (virtual or IRL)
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A magnificent piece of sleuthing in the endometriosis world....superb work from Krina Zondervon and an international team pointing to a possible new endometriosis drug target **in some subset of patients***
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Sex specific liver models - woo hoo! Those creative MIT sophomores. I love my job!! And we will send them out in the world.
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We need a moonshot for Menstruation Science. The time is now. Thanks to
@BostonGlobeMag
for letting me spell it out. And catch up with our FemTech team at the next SeXX and Immunity Event Nov 2, 4 pm at MIT! See
@ImmunoFever
posts.
Women’s health is understudied and underfunded. An MIT scientist wants to close the health gap.
@LindaGGriffith1
@MIT
@MITdeptofBE
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The cacao pods, lulled by the incessant tap tap tap of the computer keyboard, are oblivious to the impending blizzard and just want all those endometriosis manuscripts to get submitted already because school starts Monday!
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The gorgeous beauty of the human endometrium, revealed as never before, by MIT label-free optics geniuses Sixian You and Kunzan Liu. MIT is Ground Zero for ScienceXX. Where science is both beautiful, and reveals how the human uterus has lessons for all of human biology.
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Endometriosis Awareness Month! Also Adenomyosis awareness (right?!)! Endo and Adeno - are they twins? Or just siblings? Soooo many questions.
@SAOscience
highlights the perspective
@JuanGnecco4
and I wrote on how to frame some of the questions.
"Physiomimetic Models of Adenomyosis" by
@JuanGnecco4
,
@LindaGGriffith1
, & team at
@MIT
. Published in
@ThiemeIntl
: 🔚
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Endometriosis genetic risk - and co-morbid risk- revealed. A magnificent international collaboration shows links to migraine and other chronic pain diseases. Kudos to Krina Zondervan and the whole team. Breathtakingly beautiful paper.
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And you DEFINITELY won't write a proposal about fibroids....which afflict a huge percent of black women symptomatically, NOT a "benign" disease, but common and morbid and more common in black women....
@Lola_UMich
you are SO on target here! Amen!
This is what we mean. "The people who get to do the research set the research that gets done." Diverse people study diverse problems, period.
If you have zero Black women in your life, it may be difficult to see their higher incident of BC. You won't write a proposal about it.
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BMES is a wrap - amazing gynecology there! NOW - who wants to connect at ASRM next Tues or Wed. In New Orleans? !!
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We celebrate the light this year, in service of women who need cures for menstrual disorders. When there is no cure for people with the best access - imagine life for the rest. Kudos to friends for their service.
@rdkamm
@BarzilayRegina
@sixian_you
@ImmunoFever
@Peter_Movilla
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Calling all faculty candidates who want to apply bioengineering to women's health: Cornell BME is hiring!
@fischbcl17
is chairing the search committee and MIT alum Jan Lammerding is an enthusiastic search co-lead.
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A fantastic resource for endometriosis patients - AND their doctors AND their parents, siblings, friends, hey EVERYONE - Society for Women's Health Research EndoToolkit. You can bet I insisted on the GI symptoms in teens getting some sunshine!
SWHR Board member
@LindaGGriffith1
is working to change the conversation around
#endometriosis
, which is often overlooked and stigmatized as a women's disease related to
#menstruation
.
Learn more in SWHR's
#EndoToolkit
:
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Congrats to Lab Alum Manu Platt! And thanks to lab alum Shelly Peyton for the news!
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Why yes we multitask: Adenomyosis, pregnancy, pelvic floor!
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All my peeps need to pay attention to this: when gynecology surgeons are underpaid, women suffer. Gaining parity in NIH investment in "female" diseases, and in treatment for them, is a major civil rights issue for our era.
Dr. Barbara Levy dishes the truth
@AAGL
PG course:
#gynsurgeons
are paid lower RVU conversion factor than other surgeons to redistribute 💰 to specialties deemed more valuable than women’s health 😭😱
#AAGL20
#MIGS
#MIGSlife
#gynfluencer
#gynissurgery
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Several Postdoc positions available - liver disease modeling, endometriosis, and Lyme!
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Endometriosis AND adenomyosis are adolescent diseases. Thank you
@PaolaVigano3
for your tireless efforts to help these suffering girls. Excellent decision tree, should be on every pediatricians wall.
Is endometriosis due to a mismatch between genetic adaptation and socio-environmental evolution? If true, a secondary prevention in symptomatic adolescents should be considered.
@policlinicoMI
#Paolovercellini
#endometriosis
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Grad student Ellen Kan teaching the endometriosis community how to build vascularized lesions from patient samples. Can’t wait to share these tools she worked so hard to build
#wce2023
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A shout out to all the clinicians who save lives every day, but especially to this heroine who saved mine, again and again. Dr. Annie Liau has been my Ob/Gyn since my early postdoc days, and I would not be here still without her amazing care.
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A happy marriage starts with....analysis of cell migration! 27 years ago, Out of Town News failed to get their weekly hard copies of Nature, dashing my V-Day present plans for Lauffenburger, whose seminal paper (Palecek et al) was in it. The gesture counted - we got engaged.
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"Science of Endometriosis"! We are thrilled to launch an INTERACTIVE educational program to teach patients and their families - ANYONE - the basics of how clinicians and scientists study endometriosis (and adenomyosis). THIS SUNDAY July 11 4 pm.
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And don't get me started on the ~10:1 ratio for ED:Adenomyosis. Adeno = a leading cause of female infertility.... infertility is just the tip of the iceberg: the pain, the bleeding, the gaslighting. CGR
@MIT
is also on the hunt for donors as NIH is way behind...
In 2019 there were 5.8x more publications on erectile dysfunction than on all of female infertility.
We're launching a philanthropic effort to help level the field by funding more female reproductive health research.
Looking for connections to donors that can help. Please RT!
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Surgeons, scientists and engineers mixing it up in a quickie MIT tour during the 6th Annual Open Endoscopy Forum! Amazing talks and ideas.
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The almost 6 month saga of depositing sequence data in dbGaP is over! So - paper on endometrial coculture in synthetic hydrogel is accepted by Med! And the matrix was licensed this month so soon, you can try this at home…
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C'mon, MIT - let's push this big bad elephant out of the room. Join us, including
@SuriTavneet
, in starting the push, on Killian Court next Wed at 4:45 pm!
MIT can address this elephant in the room: Bad periods!
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Good times today with Roser Vento Tormo in lab @ MIT today, planning a collaboration to unravel the mysteries of the uterus! And cure endometriosis, right?! We will build the model and she will tell us if it is real......more good times ahead!
“1 of 10 women in reproductive age suffer from endometriosis, but we don’t have a diagnostic tool and we don’t have a treatment for it.” -Roser Vento-Tormo of
@sangerinstitute
Roser is mapping the female reproductive system to better understand diseases
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The maternal instinct is a force of nature...so we fight endometriosis with everything we've got....capsule summary of the motivation and current frontiers in that battle in this little TEDxMIT talk (and yeah, doing the JNKi next steps - today!!)
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A rising tide lifts all boats! Fellow endo/adenomyosis warriors at Roche/ Genentech bring you the message that what we learn about the endometrium can be broadly useful!
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Postdoc positions! We are expanding our project with NovoNordisk and looking ahead to a broader industry consortium and MIT core facility...great group, anyone looking for a liver MPS-related postdoc (or MPS platform), check it out!
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Our Moonshot for Menstruation Science will unlock the amazing secrets of how the uterus creates life, and sustains life - and the lessons it has for cardiovascular disease, migraines...all human health.
@elonmusk
come to MIT to elevate this launch from a Moonshot to a Mars Shot!
There is a human tissue that builds itself up and breaks itself down every ~28 days using non-scarring wound healing and instead of studying that and learning everything we can about it we think it's gross and look for other less relevant models to understand wound healing.
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High Five to male colleagues who happen to mention, in professional conversation, some cool thing their wives, sisters, moms, daughters did that they find fascinating, inspiring, funny, endearing....that river of love /respect for women quietly nourishes those around you
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Why yes, we grow theobroma cacao trees from seed here in New England! All MIT Biological Engineering first year grad students will be welcomed with their own trees this fall, from the crop planted during recruiting weekend :)
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Menstruation! Come learn about it from one of the world's foremost authorities, Hilary Critchley, THIS THURSDAY at 4 pm. Stay for the reception, and learn more about her, and the Moonshot for Menstruation Science launching at MIT! Zoom link in QR code
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Proud to be on the board of the Society for Women's Health Research, advocating for more research and action on sex-based differences in disease. Kudos to them for an endometriosis webinar event Mar. 16
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Excited to build a local "SeXX and Immunity" community with academia and industry - we are building so many tools to capture human sex dimorphic immune responses in vitro! Joint Ragon- MIT effort! Email me (griff
@mit
.edu) to get on mailing list for registration site!
"SeXX and Immunity" Kendall Sq/Boston seminar/discussion group to foster industry-academia big brains to look at sex dimorphism in immune responses. Launch Jan 19 with seminar by
@sabraklein1998
then a GRC-style e-poster session with drinks and food. Event timing (always Wed)?
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When the Director of the NIH Beta Center
@DrPlattLab
starts thinking about uterine mechanics....it means gynecology is on its way to taking over NIH. (I can do some wishful thinking on a Friday, right?)
And I've got uterus mechanics of non-pregnant women on my mind! Great conversation!
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I am missing NAM this year (because of NAMs! And Women's Health Advisory Board meeting at BII in Copenhagen!), but applaud this shoutout from
@VictorDzau
posted by
@cheryliglesia
- I hope the world will soon hear some big noise from MIT on launching a Moonshot for Menstruation
@VictorDzau
highlights disparities in research funding; endometriosis impacts 10% of women and gets $20M while prostate cancer impacts 12% of men and gets $284M. Why?
@LindaGGriffith1
@GynSurgery
@acog
@AAGL
#nationalacademy
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"SeXX and Immunity" Kendall Sq/Boston seminar/discussion group to foster industry-academia big brains to look at sex dimorphism in immune responses. Launch Jan 19 with seminar by
@sabraklein1998
then a GRC-style e-poster session with drinks and food. Event timing (always Wed)?
4 pm seminar, 5 pm poster
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Screenshot of a slide from the African Endometriosis Conference yesterday ... I wish I could say we have come a long way since my first year of college but all I can see is how far we have to go, to understand the non-pregnant uterus. Let's shine some light on it!
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