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Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. What happens when we encourage women to establish careers in science? We see women solving problems that matter to them. We see women developing new solutions to diagnose endometriosis Hadas Ziso. We see women recognizing that menstrual blood has tremendous potential as a non invasive diagnostic Karli Büchling. We see women inspired to diagnose ovarian cancer when it can still be treated Inbal Zafir-Lavie. We see women realizing that a women's cycle has an impact on drug metabolism Dr. Ilana Kwartin. There are dozens of other examples I could mention (maybe we should make it a month!), but I think we all realize that women in science do not only influence their own lives but the lives of millions of other women, investing and innovating in unmet medical needs that weren't even on the radar before women were involved in the field. Feel free to tag your favorite woman in science in the comments. Dr Ronell Klingman (Bernstein) MD, Michal Lebenthal Andreson, LlB, Tamar Tavory, Dr. Michal Sela, Raichel Cohen Harazi, Abby Kra-Friedman PhD, CNM, WHNP, RN, Abby King, Brittany Barreto, Ph.D., Marissa Fayer.

#endometriosis impacts approximately 190 million women and girls of reproductive age, yet the path to diagnosis is often difficult, invasive and costly, taking an average 6.4 years. On Tuesday night, we heard from pioneering leaders in this space at the University of Adelaide Research Tuesday spotlight, who are working on incredible innovations - feeling honoured having both Dr Jodie Avery, BA BAppSc (Med Rad) MPH PhD and Professor Louise Hull from the Imagendo group as supervisors on my masters research, looking at the femtech landscape, and how there is immense clinical need for women’s health research and technology development, yet barriers continue to stifle innovation. Innovation is not a luxury when it comes to women’s health, it is a necessity for our society and for individual quality of life. #innovation #research #womenshealth #endometriosis #imagendo #technology #femtech

Millions of women are suffering in silence. Why? The endometriosis crisis. Endometriosis affects approximately 11% of women in the U.S. aged 15 to 44, or about 6.5 million people, yet it is severely understudied. Enter, the Hub for Endometriosis Research (HER), a first-of-its-kind research collaboration uniting investigators at Magee-Womens Research Institute, UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital, and the University of Pittsburgh School of Engineering. Read how two women's stories converged to drive the creation of the first-of-its-kind research collaboration dedicated to finding answers for millions of those suffering from this disease: https://bit.ly/48sBsqu

Thrilled to announce that our (Ali Darzi, Itır Önal Ertuğrul , Nicole Provenza, Ron Gadot, Eric Storch, Sameer Sheth, wayne goodman, Jeffrey Cohn) paper, “Multimodal Prediction of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Comorbid Depression, and Energy of Deep Brain Stimulation,” has been accepted for publication in the prestigious IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing! A big thank you to my co-authors and everyone involved in this research. I’m looking forward to seeing the impact our findings will have on patients’ lives. Stay tuned for the publication! Preprint: Multimodal prediction of obsessive-compulsive disorder, comorbid depression, and energy of deep brain stimulation (techrxiv.org) #IEEETransactionsOnAffectiveComputing #MentalHealth

#June10th is Equal research day. Why? 🤷♀️ Women weren’t required in US clinical research until June 10, 1993 and to this day, we're still decades behind. #Cytochroma is increasing the representation of women in drug development, from discovery through to development. #respresentationmatters #womenshealthmatters #WHAM SHOCKING FACTS: 👱♀️ Across 770 disease, from diabetes to cancer, women are diagnosed on average 4 years later than men. (Westergaard 2019) 👩⚕️ Women spend 25% more of their lives in debilitating health than men. (Whiting 2024) 👩💻 Women are 32% more likely to die if their surgeon is a man. (Wallis 2022) Only 1% of global healthcare research and innovation is invested in female specific conditions beyond cancer. (Mckinsey & Company 2022) 👩🔬 Women are 2X as likely to suffer adverse side effects from medication. (Zucker 2020) 👩🏫 Less than 50% of medical schools have women’s health curricula. (Clayton 2020)

Learn more about bolstering translational research to address women’s health needs and join the @NASEM Health and Medicine Division Forum on Regenerative Medicine and Forum on Temporomandibular Disorders for a public hybrid workshop on October 1. Conversations will explore opportunities in regenerative medicine to better understand the underlying biology and develop therapies for women. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gmRVFRCP #RegenMedForum #TemporomandibularDisorders #RegenerativeMedicine #WomensHealth 

As we wrap up #WomensHistoryMonth, we reflect on a few of the recent ways our organization is making strides for women's health. 🩺💜 Read "Empowering Women’s Health: A One Enterprises Approach" to learn how the Digital Solutions, Translational Sciences, and MyUPMC teams make women's health a key priority in their work: https://hubs.la/Q02r8DDH0

Attend the #DEI Workshop, Transforming Transplantation: Building Paths to Equitable Care and Outcomes in Prague. 💡 This interactive session will explore the factors that influence and interfere with equitable access to #transplantation and post-txp care for patients. The workshop will feature: - Historical and present forms of systemic bias and structural racism - Multi-disciplinary research studies for multiple organs and countries - Active discussions and presentations - Panel of experts to present tools that practitioners can use to recognize and address systemic issues Register now to gain insights into how to advocate for patients and help empower patients throughout their transplant journey. Learn more at 🔗 https://bit.ly/3SE8c9n

Hey! Join us in celebrating International Women's Day! Thrilled that the young female researchers in our lab are being recognized on a day like today! Discover what exciting projects we're working on in our newly established Cell Death Signaling Lab by checking out the blog post below! #womaninscience #equityinscience