New review article for Michael J. Soares and Marija Kuna at BioEssays "Cited2 is a key regulator of placental development and plasticity." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bi…

New review article from Warren Nothnick and collaborators: "The Molecular Link between Obesity and the Endometrial Environment: A Starting Point for Female Infertility" mdpi.com/2840154

New publication from Wenjing Cao, X. Long Zheng, MD, PhD, Malay Basu and Elizabeth Staley in Blood Vessels, Thrombosis & Hemostasis: "Genetic Variants Contribute to Modulation of Renal Function in Patients with Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Closing the Women’s Health Care Gap kumc.edu/communications…

Maternity deserts in Kansas - Encore Open Mics with Dr. Stites youtube.com/watch?v=EQtEgO…

Congratulations!

Congratulations Dr. Elin Grundberg and Dr. Pastinen!

Congratulations to to Ayelen Moreno (Ayelen Moreno Irusta) for her new NIH K99 award!

Congratulations to Soumen Paul for his new R01 grant!

New article from Long Zheng (X. Long Zheng, MD, PhD Zheng Laboratory) and collaborators in Pathology (KU Pathology & Laboratory Medicine) Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine (KU Internal Medicine) in JCM MDPI. mdpi.com/2915884

Congratulations! Praveen Chakravarthi and Lane Christenson were awarded an R21 grant for their project entitled "Circular RNA Role in Ovarian Follicular Development and Fertility."

Congratulations to Vargheese Chennathukuzhi and Aleksandar Rajkovic on their new R01! "REST-MED12 Pathways in the Regulation of Estrogen - Progesterone Sensitivity in Uterine Leiomyoma"

If you’ve either applied for an F grant before or have sponsored one and you’re planning to submit again, budget extra time to read the new instructions carefully. A prior app may not be a useful template. Learn more about changes to NIH fellowships: go.nih.gov/fellowships

Thank you John S Davis for sharing your knowledge and time as our inaugural William H. Kinsey Lecture in Gamete Biology speaker!

New publication! Clinical Utility of Recently Food and Drug Administration-Approved IntelliSep Test (Sepsis Biomarker) for Early Diagnosis of Sepsis: Comparison with Other Biomarkers mdpi.com/2915884 #mdpijcm via JCM MDPI

Hey Ayelen Moreno Irusta and Miki Simon! Some IRDS scientists represented KUMC well at IFPA 2024 in Montreal last week.

Way to go Miki Simon! Winner of the 2024 Elsevier Trophoblast Research Award for best New Investigator poster presentation. IFPA Meeting, Montreal, Canada. Miki will be invited to present her work at next year's meeting in Germany. IFPA

Congrats to Namrata Roy for her NIH New Investigator Travel Award in recognition of the excellence of abstract submitted for the 2024 IFPA meeting in Montreal, Canada.

New publication from MAK Rumi, Patrick Fields and team. Importance of Transcript Variants in Transcriptome Analyses mdpi.com/2947358 #mdpicells via Cells MDPI

Thank you to Dr. Raj Kumar for his lecture today: "Gonadotropin Rerouting and Female Reproductive Aging." We appreciate the time spent with our faculty, trainees and staff. Kumar Lab