MAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION

Magee-Womens Research Institute (MWRI) is one of the largest research institutes worldwide devoted exclusively to reproductive sciences and women's health research. MWRI is making discoveries and advancing knowledge in many areas affecting women including: reproductive biology and development, female cancer genomics and personalized therapies, HIV immunization and prevention, fertility preservation, and pelvic floor research. Through our revolutionary 9-90TM research, we focus on how pregnancy and fetal development can affect health and disease prevention for future generations. We firmly believe that new insights into the role of early human development in defining short- and long-term health and wellness will transform our understanding of disease development, treatment and prevention for future generations. Researchers concentrate on seven key areas of discovery: reproductive endocrinology and infertility (including ovarian biology, female and male germ cell development, infertility and restoration of fertility); reproductive development (including reproductive development, stem cell biology, germ cell development and differentiation and microbiome and development); pregnancy and newborn medicine (including prenatal genetics, feto-placental development, preterm birth, preeclampsia, newborn medicine); gynecology (including family planning, benign gynecological disorders, urogynecology and pelvic floor dysfunction); infectious diseases (including HIV and vaginal microbicides, reproductive tract infections, pharmaceutics and drug delivery); women's cancers (reproductive tract cancers); and women's wellness and health services outcomes (including patient-provider communication, substance use disorders, behavioral health and alternative medicine). Considering our depth and breadth, MWRI strives to advance scientific discovery and translate the results of scientific research into knowledge pertinent to women's health. To ensure the future of women's health research, MWRI has established educational programs at all levels of academic development, including opportunities for faculty and postdoctoral scholars as well as graduate and medical students, college students and high school students. MWRI hosts the Magee-Womens Research Summit, an international conference of physicians, researchers and corporate leaders focused on women's health. The centerpiece of the summit is the award of a $1 million prize for collaborative and transformative research within the reproductive sciences. Dedicated to solving real-world problems and improving lives today and for future generations as well as to coaching the next generation of scientists, MWRI is committed to a better, healthier world in which women's health has the scientific prominence and cultural status it deserves.