ASRM recently announced the recipients of the 2026 ASRM Endowment Awards. Teresa K. Woodruff, PhD is this year's recipient of the Carlos Simón Excellence in Translational Research Award. The award citation from ASRM is noted below:
"Teresa K. Woodruff, PhD, collaborated with oncologists, biomedical engineers, and policymakers to establish the field of oncofertility and develop novel approaches…
Backed by a new $4.6 million award from the National Institutes of Health, or NIH, Michigan State University researchers are launching a novel project to transform how medications are developed and prescribed for women. This is the first installment of an award worth up to $12.8 million over three years. Researchers from Rutgers, Emory, Tulane, University…
For years, physicians have referred to women's healthcare as "bikini medicine" and assumed they can diagnose and treat both genders the same way. But it's costing women their lives.
Kristin Samuelson discusses the celebration of the NIH's landmark sex-inclusion policy.
Scientists from throughout the Northwestern Medicine community and beyond came together to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the implementation of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) landmark sex-inclusion policy at a symposium on January 25.
On January 25th, 2017 the Women’s Health Research Institute, in collaboration with the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, hosted the Sex Inclusion in Biomedical Research Workshop and Symposium.
The editorial "Only male subjects in basic science research? Not anymore" features Dr. Woodruff commenting on the 2014 National Institutes of Health policy that requires scientists to begin using female lab animals, which takes full effect January, 2015.
Dr. Woodruff and Dr. Kibbe's opinion piece on the postitive implications the new NIH policies for sex inclusion have on scientific research (and ultimately personalized medicine) is featured in Chicago Medicine.