Endometriosis and Uterine Fibroids

Session Chair(s)

• 

  Nathan Richbourg, PhD (he/him/his)

  Postdoctoral Scholar
  Tufts University
  Medford, Massachusetts, United States
• 

  Erika Moore, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor
  University of Maryland, United States

Track Chair(s)

• 

  Pilar de la Puente, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Associate Scientist
  Sanford Research / University of South Dakota School of Medicine
  Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
• KF

  Kaitlin Fogg, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor
  Oregon State University
  Corvallis, Oregon, United States

Presentations:

• 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM EST

  Characterizing Heterogeneity of Estrogen Receptor Isoform Expression in Endometriosis: Rethinking the ERβ Dominance Hypothesis
  

  Presenting Author: Alexis E. Heath (she/her/hers) – Case Western Reserve University

  Primary Investigator: Douglas Brubaker, PhD (he/him/his) – Case Western Reserve University
• 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM EST

  A Vascularized Endometriosis Lesion Model for Parsing Responses to Progestins
  

  Presenting Author: Ellen L. Kan (she/her/hers) – MIT

  Co-Author: Maria Hernandez (she/her/hers) – MIT

  Co-Author: Roger Kamm – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Primary Investigator: Linda G. Griffith – MIT
• 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM EST

  Development and validation of healthy endometrium and endometriosis models for high-throughput phenotypic screening
  

  Presenting Author: Del Donehoo – Oregon State University

  Co-Author: Ines Cadena, PhD (she/her/hers) – Oregon State University

  Co-Author: Molly Jenne – Oregon State University

  Primary Investigator: Kaitlin Fogg, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Oregon State University
• 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM EST

  Extracellular Matrix Changes and Progesterone Resistance: Exploring Relationships in Endometriosis
  

  Presenting Author: Danielle Klunk (she/her/hers) – University of Virginia

  Primary Investigator: Daniel Abebayehu – University of Virginia
• 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM EST

  A Biomaterial Model of Uterine Fibroids: Understanding Fibroblast Differentiation into Myofibroblasts
  

  Presenting Author: Allison Moses – University of Maryland, Fischell Department of Bioengineering

  Primary Investigator: Erika Moore, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland
• 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM EST

  Quercetin Modulates the Senescence-Fibrotic Microenvironment in Uterine Fibroid Cells: A Potential Non-Hormonal Therapeutic Approach
  

  Presenting Author: Md Soriful Islam, PhD (he/him/his) – Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

  Co-Author: Valeria I. Macri (she/her/hers) – Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

  Co-Author: Joscelyn C. Mejías, PhD – Translational Tissue Engineering Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

  Co-Author: Sushma Nagaraj, MS – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

  Co-Author: Rachel Michel, MSPH (she/her/hers) – Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

  Co-Author: Eslam Saad, PhD – Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

  Co-Author: Katlin B. Stivers, PhD (she/her/hers) – Translational Tissue Engineering Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

  Co-Author: Bhuchitra Singh, MD, MPH, MS, MBA – Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

  Co-Author: Casie Post, RN – Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

  Co-Author: Joshua Brennan, MPH (he/him/his) – Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

  Co-Author: Mostafa Borahay, MD, PhD – Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

  Co-Author: Jennifer H. Elisseeff, PhD – Translational Tissue Engineering Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

  Primary Investigator: James Segars, MD (he/him/his) – Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA