This is your sign to capitalize on some amazing opportunities for support from the SSR!

Emerging Investigator Grant: ~8 1-year grants of $10,000.00
Deadline: 4/26

SSR Annual Meeting Child Caregiving Grant: 10 grant of $500 per family
Deadline: 5/15
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Calling all #WinRS ! One more week to submit a late-breaking abstract.

Also, there's one more week to volunteer for the WinRS subcommittee for SSR!

Deadlines are 4/15/2024

Congratulations Dr. Paula Cohen for receiving the SSR Trainee Mentoring Award for 2024! The Cohen Lab #WomenInSTEM

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How it started vs how its going: endometriosis
#WomensHistoryMonth2024 #WinRS #WomeninRepro Caroline Gargett Diana Monsivais PhD

Proud to be a part of this incredible team developing novel ways to diagnose and treat endo. We are working hard to know why endo occurs in the first place and how we can treat endo associated infertility 🔬💛 Hudson Institute The Ritchie Centre Monash University School of Clinical Sciences WinRS Caroline Gargett

The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes and still today the only individual with two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific categories: Marie Skłodowska Curie.

Learn more: nobelprize.org/prizes/chemist…

How it started vs. how it’s going: ovarian folliculogenesis #WomensHistoryMonth2024 #WinRS #WomeninRepro

How it started vs. how it’s going: early embryonic development #WomensHistoryMonth2024 #WinRS #WomeninRepro

Where it started vs. How it’s going:
Primordial Germ Cell Edition
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#InternationalWomensDay #WomensHistoryMonth2024
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Won’t you join us for the Ovarian Workshop in Dublin next year? Monica M Laronda WinRS #SSR2024 SSR SSR Trainees

The rete ovarii is an interesting structure that might control ovulation timing! SSR Jen McKey Dilara Anbarci
newscientist.com/article/241787…

Exciting news and a much push forward for women's health! For reference, this investment amounts to essentially the last 5 years (2019-2023) combined of total funding by NIH allocated for endometriosis research (see breakdown).

whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

For #BlackHistoryMonth we honor Dr. Lena Edwards, one of the first black female OB/GYN.

Her unique perspective aimed to close the gap between 'a poor man's treatment versus a rich man's treatment.'

We love her 'lift as you climb' philosophy 👏
cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/bio…

This #BlackHistoryMonth we honor Henrietta Lacks, whose non-consented cell donation fueled a medical revolution as the first-ever cells grown in culture #HeLa #WomenInScience

Happy Valentine's Day from WinRS! Please help us share the love for reproductive biology and the fantastic women scientists in our field by commenting below.

Scientists of color are faced with numerous challenges in the pursuit of success in academia. Kwabena Boahen Asare highlights how imposter syndrome impacts people of color in academia and how it can be overcome by human connection #BlackHistoryMonth
science.org/content/articl…

Applications are now open for the UK Fertility Preservation New Investigator Award. Don’t miss out! EFP - Edinburgh Fertility Preservation The Centre for Reproductive Health SRF BritFertSoc

In honor of Black History Month, we acknowledge the pain and suffering of enslaved black women that built modern reproductive medicine.

Check out this quick read from Dr. Deirdre Cooper about how the field of repro was shaped by slavery: nihrecord.nih.gov/2022/04/01/rep…
#BlackHistory