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Improving Investment in Women’s Health Research, Health Care | Chicago News | WTTW – WTTW News

Just a fraction of research funds into Alzheimers, heart disease, and autoimmune disease goes toward women, even though they disproportionately face those ailments.

Thats according toa new report from the group Womens Health Access Matters, which found that a $300 million dollar investment into research focused on women would yield a $13 billion economic return in reduced healthcare costs, better quality of life, and years of productivity returned to the workforce.

Nicole Woitowich, research assistant professor of medical social sciences at Northwestern Universitys Feinberg School of Medicine, says that research subjects have historically been male whether they were humans, or other animals like mice and rats.

It wasnt until 1993 through, literally, an act of Congress the NIH Revitalization Act that women were required to be included in National Institutes of Health-funded clinical research studies, said Woitowich, who holds a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology. But then it wasnt again until 2016 when the NIH developed a mandate to require investigators consider sex as a biological variable.

Dr. Vineet Arora, dean for medical education at the University of Chicagos Pritzker School of Medicine, says just one recent example was the fact that pregnant and breastfeeding people were excluded from COVID-19 vaccine trials.

We have great data now to show that, in fact, the COVID vaccine is very important for pregnant people (and) people who are breastfeeding. Its actually protective against severe COVID, as well as protective for newborns because you can pass on antibodies. We didnt know that initially, and that lack of information gave opportunity for misinformation to arise, Arora said.

Woitowich says when investigators dont analyze data by sex, its leaving knowledge on the table. She cites a recent study of glioblastoma treatment that broke down how male and female patients were responding.

They found that males were responding more poorly to treatment than women. That brought up a whole new question: why is this actually happening, and how can we tailor our therapies to be beneficial for both sexes and improve the health of everyone? This is not just a matter of looking at reproductive health or hormonal health. This is analyzing data in all body systems, Woitowich said.

In addition to biases and oversights in research and healthcare, there are also gender disparities throughout the medical workforce persistent salary gaps, lack of maternity leave, expectations that disadvantage women who care for children or elders.

Until I started talking to other women, (I didnt know) that the challenges I faced were not because I wasnt good enough, or I wasnt smart enough, or I wasnt accomplished enough, said Dr. Shikha Jain of the University of Illinois Cancer Center. These women were amazing and way more accomplished than me (and) had very similar experiences to ones I had.

Arora says its important recognize the way that inequities and biases can contribute to women in healthcare burning out an issue even before the COVID-19 pandemic.

We need to start thinking about this as a problem that needs a concerted effort to address gender equity at all levels of an institution, particularly for mentoring and sponsoring women to move up the chain, and making sure they have opportunities, Arora said.

Its a question of changing the health care infrastructure designed before women joined the workforce, says Jain. Shes also the founder and president of the nonprofit Women in Medicine, which hosts conferences and leads trainings in an effort to close the gender gap in healthcare.

Theres a lot of women who dont achieve their full potential, not because they arent good enough in actuality theres a system set up to prevent them from getting to the level they could get to, Jain said. We need to take the onus away from the women. It needs to be everybody having these discussions and bringing these issues up.

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People and Places at Penn: Homecoming | Penn Today – Penn Today

Penn students are encouraged to engage with the wider world, to be curious about their passions. In the case of the six alumni profiled here, the wider world eventually led them back to Penn. These alumni share their favorite campus spotsand how they found their niche, whether the road was slow and steady or circuitous and surprising.

Several alumni, like Brian Peterson of Makuu and Heather Calvert of mindCORE, pursued advanced degrees while working for the University. As an athlete and anthropology major, Alanna Shanahan chose Franklin Field and the Penn Museum as her favorite spots. Chaz Howard is energized by the intellectual life at W.E.B. Du Bois College House and contemplates major life decisions at the BioPond. Craig Carnaroliwho climbed up the Benjamin Franklin statue to take a picture with the founder on graduationis undergoing a second education at Penn, in addition to his Wharton degree. Kushol Gupta, wearing two hats, serves as both assistant director of the Penn Band and studies drugs that target HIV.

For many in the Penn community, campus rhythms have become intertwined with family life. Carnaroli, Peterson, Gupta, and Howard all met their partners at PennGupta proposed to his wife in Hill College House, her freshman dorm. Calvert recalls the Penn Relays playing while she was in the maternity ward after the birth of her son. One thing I really like about Penn is it feels like theres a unique set of seasons, Calvert says: the dynamic energy of Move-In, the crunch of autumn leaves and dim rumble of leaf-blowing, the holiday decorations, the calm during Winter Break, the sprucing-up that happens in spring: mulching and painting. Your seasons are marked by the ebb and flow, she says. Throughout the changes, here are the spots these alumni have chosen as touchstones.

I spent many an hour on Franklin Field as an undergraduate, says Alanna Shanahan, who graduated from Penn in 1996. She was a lacrosse midfielder, and spring training would start on Feb. 1. If it snowed, the field would be plowed and the coaches would incorporate the huge mounds of snow into their drills, Shanahan remembers. Often we had practices at night, so youre out there and its freezing, she says. Just some of the memories created through those moments where youre like, Oh my goodness, are we going to get through this?

Franklin Field is now one of her favorite Penn places, along with the Penn Museum, where she spent time as an anthropology major. Later, she had her wedding reception in the rotunda.

Shanahan, who is now the T. Gibbs Kane, Jr. W69 Director of Athletics and Recreation, was not someone who went through Penn with a grand plan, she says. As a student-athlete with a part-time job, I was always running from one thing to the next. Shanahan started working in the athletics department after graduation and earned first her masters degree and then a doctorate in higher education administration from the Graduate School of Education.

As her career blossomed, Shanahan discovered that she also enjoyed being a part of a professional team and providing people with transformative opportunities. I am absolutely someone who loves watching people and organizations advance and grow, she says. As an athlete, she loved the aspiration of a common goal. As athletics director, Shanahan is still pushing through the tough days, supporting her teammates, and working toward a greater whole.

Brian Peterson is the director of Makuu: the Black Cultural Center, housed in the ground floor of the ARCH building, one of Petersons favorite spots. While doing his undergraduate work at Penn (Peterson graduated with a degree in engineering), the ARCH building housed a restaurant called the Palladium. I never went there, he says. The restaurant was in the center of campus, with the castle, and all the frats. It was like passing through something that wasnt really yours.

Now, he says, Theres so much that happens here: Sister, Sister and Black Men United [both discussion groups], Makuus open house, Penn Spectrum events. Having Makuu be in the middle of campus is representative of the work we do; how important it is.

Makuus Kwanzaa celebration is traditionally held in Houston Halls Hall of Flags, currently being used for COVID testing, which Peterson loves for its Harry Potter feel.

Kwanzaa is a great way to close out the semester, he says. The event ushers students into the finals period with a positive affirmation, Peterson says. We nourish you with food and have a great cultural reminder for why you are here.

Chaz Howard carries in his pockets a clean, white handkerchief and a Russian icon of Jesus on his phone. As University Chaplain and University vice president for social equity & community, Howard has need for both. As he paces the paths encircling the BioPond, he is constantly greeted by warm nods and playful banter. Everyone wants to say hello, to elicit a smile, to reach out, to connect. Yet for Howard, the BioPond is often a place of meditation, of reflection. Before any big decision, he says, I came here to pray.

The BioPond is a bit hidden, tucked away on campus, but thats part of its appeal, Howard says.

It was here he decided to proposed to his wife, here he decided to accept the call to go to divinity school, here he decided to accept the offer to become University vice president for social equity & community, a position with added responsibility and weight for the father of three.

Howard first arrived as a freshman on campus in 1996. He lived at W.E.B. Du Bois College House, where he felt excited and moved by the Black intellectual life he found there, discussions on slavery, leadership, and political activism, often organized by classmates. Howard ultimately chose to double major in urban studies and Africana studies, motivated by his passion and curiosity. In his senior year, he decided to further his studies to become a chaplainand also to reach out to his good friend Lia to tell her, right before leaving, that he was falling in love. I kind of put that on her, he says. My timing was terrible. But like any of Howards decisions, it was not without careful reflection. Howard and Lia stayed in touch. After a few years, and a few more walks around the BioPond, she became his wife.

After graduating in 1994, Kushol Gupta had friends clear the 5th floor balcony at Hill College House, waited for his girlfriend to arrive, and proposed. Kids nowadays wouldnt dare do that at 22, but back then, we knew, he says. Gupta, research assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics in the Perelman School of Medicine, met his wife, now an ER veterinarian, in the Penn Band where he played trombone, she clarinet.

When he first came into Penn, Gupta thought he would major in science, but then started taking music classes. The moment I got of hit of it, I just wanted more, he says. Gupta ended up double-majoring in biochemistry and music. It became a part of who I was, he says. And then I never really left the band. Gupta is now the Bands assistant director, and one of its many passionate advocates. To join, all you need is a passion and a pulse, he says. We teach you the rest.

On March 5, 2020, Kushol Gupta was in his element: with the Band, at the Palestra, watching A.J. Brodeur surpass Penns career scoring record. This was also the same night HUP documented its first COVID case, Gupta recalls, foreshadowing the pandemic shutdown and the end of March Madness. We were already cleaning surfaces and started using elbow bumps.

It was then that his two hats came in handy. With his scientific background, Gupta became deeply involved, translating medical language into vernacular, helping the performing arts community at Penn implement new ways to keep students safe while continuing to make music. (Making recordings virtually was a challenge.) If Gupta could teach a tone-deaf kid to play the tuba, he could figure out how to play through a pandemic.

One thing I try to do every year is go to Commencement, says Heather Calvert, executive director of mindCORE, an interdisciplinary research center for studying the mind. My son was born April 28, 2005, during the Penn Relays. And I was on maternity leave during graduation, but I pushed him in a stroller from my home in West Philly to go to Commencement, she says. It ended up being the first time Calvert breastfed him out of her house, a weird new mom moment, she says.

The next year, when her son was 1, Calvert pushed him through campus on the way to drop him off at Penn Childrens Center and stopped to watch the parade. He was wearing a Penn sweatshirt and I remember these graduating seniors who were like Hey, this will be you someday, little buddy. It was a touching moment and one that brought her into the pageantry of the event. I love when the band plays on the Button. I love the speeches. I love all the proud parents, Calvert says. As both a staff member and alum, the ebb and flow of campus has become tied up with her family life, Calvert says.

Calvert graduated from the Fels Institute of Government with a masters in public administration in 2015. It was hard to have a family and work full-time and go to school, she says. Fels held their graduation ceremony in the garden, and it was a meaningful accomplishment for Calvert with her parents in attendance, especially as she didnt walk after earning a B.A. from Villanova in 1992.

Claes Oldenburgs Split Button sculpture is another tie to campus life for Calvert. She would walk through campus to drop her son off at daycare and he would want to get out of the stroller to play on the sculpture. During the early part of the pandemic, when everything was shut down and quiet, Calvert and a friend who walked daily with Calverts foster dog from the Working Dog Center, stopped to take a picture while walking through campus: dog, son, friendeveryone at the Button. We were all a little depressed and freaked out, but it felt grounding in some sense to be back on campus, she says, a little bit of constancy in the midst of so much uncertainty.

Senior executive vice president Craig R. Carnaroli vividly remembers the day he got a call from President Amy Gutmanns office. I think theres a tree growing out of the chimney at 38th and Locust, he remembers her saying. She was right, he says. It spurred us into how to reimagine that location. That location turned into what is now Perry World House, which recently celebrated its fifth anniversary. He loves the public lectures and the open space that invites everyone in, offering an education that extends beyond the classroom, Carnaroli says.

There is no typical day at Penn, where a conversation about building maintenance can lead to a world-renowned policy hub, Carnaroli says. The strength of Penn is the people, from top to bottom. People really buy into the mission of what were trying to achieve.

Carnaroli, who graduated from the Wharton School in 1985 as a finance and economics major, is currently undertaking what he calls my second education at Penn, in that I continue to learn a lot on the job. Thats because I have great colleagues, and because of the culture here, the collaboration, he says.

At his graduation, Carnaroli and his closest friends climbed up the Benjamin Franklin statue on College Green to take a picture. We were admonished by our parents and the onlookers, he notes. That statue continues to serve as an inspiration point. What Franklin wanted in a university, I think weve all worked together to make sure that vision was realized: an education that improved society and the world.

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Cheryl Keech, MD, Ph.D. has joined Uvax Bio as a Consultant and Acting Chief Medical Officer – BioSpace

"We are pleased to have Cheryl join our leadership team as we continue to optimize our commercial and business strategies and to progress our promising pipeline of vaccines positioned to address major areas of unmet need in global health. Her depth of experience in strategic clinical vaccine development will be especially valuable during this pivotal time at the company." said Ji Li, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer at Uvax Bio.

Dr. Keech brings to Uvax Bio two decades of life sciences experience in clinical vaccine development, medical affairs and medical/commercial strategy, including multiple product launches. Most recently, she served as Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President at iLiAD Biotechnologies, where she was responsible for the clinical development and execution of BPZE1- a next generation live attenuated pertussis vaccine that is delivered via nasal immunization. Dr. Keech also served as the Senior Vice President and Acting Chief Medical Officer for Novavax, initiating the SARS-CoV2 and overseeing the phase 3 Influenza vaccine programs. Prior to that, she served as the Executive Medical Director, Global Product Development and Therapeutic Area Head at PPD, and held positions with PATH, GlaxoSmithKline, and Eli Lilly.

Dr. Keech earned her Doctor of Medicine degree from Indiana University (IU) School of Medicine (internal medicine, board certified) and held a clinical appointment at IU. She received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Colorado Anshutz Medical Campus, and her masters degree in reproductive physiology from Texas A&M University.

"I am excited to be joining Uvax Bio and look forward to working with the rest of the management team here in advancing the company's multiple vaccine programs through the clinical development process" said Dr. Keech. "I believe that Uvax Bios unique vaccine platform has the potential to combat multiple unmet medical needs and serve the global community."

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List of full professors in the faculty of agriculture in Nigerian universities Nigeria news – Legit.ng

The faculty of Agriculture is one of the best faculties in the Nigerian educational system. With different departments, the faculty boasts of having brilliant academics at its disposal.

In this article, Legit.ng lists the names of professors in this department as released by the national university commission.

ABDULSALAM, Zakari is a Professor of Agricultural Economics in the Faculty of Agriculture, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.

ABOLAGBA, Okhumen Joel is a Professor of Fish Postharvest Technology in the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Benin, Benin City.

ABU, Sunday is a Professor of Soil Science in the Faculty of Agriculture, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

ABUBAKAR, Bello Zaki is a Professor of Rural and Community Development in the Faculty of Agriculture, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto.

ABUBAKAR, Ibrahim Umar is a Professor of Agronomy in the Faculty of Agriculture and Institute for Agricultural Research, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

ABUBAKAR, Lawali is a Professor of Plant Breeding in the Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS).

ACHIKE, Anthonia is a Professor of Agricultural Economics, in the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Nigeria Nsukka.

ACHINEWHU, Simeon Chituru is a Professor of Food and Nutritional Biochemistry. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Food Science and Technology.

ADAMU, Usman Izge is Professor of Genetics and Plant Breeding in the Faculty of Agriculture, Federal University Dutse.

ADEBAYO, Elizabeth Femi is a Professor of Agricultural Economics (Production Economics and Farm Management) in the School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology, Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola.

ADEBAYO, Isaac is a Professor of Veterinary Virology in the School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology, Federal University of Technology, Akure.

ADEBOOYE, Odunayo Clement is a Professor of Agronomy/Sustainable Crop Production/Physiology.

ADEKPE, David Idoko is a Professor of Agronomy in the Faculty of Agriculture, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

ADEKUNLE, Adefunke is a Professor of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Benin, Benin City.

ADEKUNLE, Ojo is a Professor of Plant Nematology in the Faculty of Agriculture, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

ADEKUNLE, Victor Ajibola Jimoh is a Professor of Forest Ecology and Inventory in the Department of Forestry and Wood Technology, School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology, Federal University of Technology, Akure.

ADELOYE, Abiodun Adefunmilayo is a Professor of Animal Science in the University of Ilorin.

ADENIJI, Adedayo is a Professor of Animal Science in the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Abuja.

ADENIJI, Oladimeji Bolaji is a Professor of Agricultural Extension in the Faculty of Agriculture, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti.

ADENIYI, Olawamiwa Reuben is a Professor of Agricultural Economics in the Faculty of Agriculture, Bowen University, Iwo.

ADEPARUSI, Eunice is a Professor of Fish Nutrition in the School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology, Federal University of Technology, Akure.

ADESOPE, Olufemi Martins is a Professor of Agricultural Extension in the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Port Harcourt, Port-Harcourt.

ADEWUMI, Matthew is a Professor of Agricultural Economics in the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ilorin, Nigeria.

Adeyemi, Segun is a Professor of Fisheries in the Faculty of Agriculture, Kogi State University, Anyigba.

ADEYEMO, Abiodun Oluseye is a Professor of Fisheries in the Faculty of Agriculture, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

ADEYEMO, Adebisi Ilesanmi is a Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Nutrition, Ecotourism and Hospitality in the Faculty of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology, Federal University of Technology, Akure.

AFOLAMI, Carolyn is A Professor of Agricultural Economics in the College of Agricultural Management and Rural Development, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta.

AFOLAMI, Stephen is a Professor of Nematology in the College of Plant Science and Crop Production, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB).

AGANGA, Ademiju Adeolu is a Professor of Animal Production and Nutritional Biochemistry in the Faculty of Agriculture, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti.

AGBEBI, Olubunmi is a Professor of Fish Breeding and Genetics in the College of Environmental Resources Management. Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta.

AGBEDE, Johnson is a Professor of Agricultural Biochemistry and Nutrition in the School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology, Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA).

AGBELUSI, Emmanuel Abayomi is a Professor of Wildlife Ecology in the School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology, Federal University of Technology, Akure.

AGELE, Samuel Ohikhena is a Professor of Crop Physiology in the School of Agriculture and Agricultural technology, Federal University of Technology, Akure.

AGIANG, Emmanuel is a Professor of Animal Science in the Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Wild Life Resources, University of Calabar.

AGU, Clifford Madubuko is a Professor of Crop Science in the School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology, Federal University of Technology, Owerri.

AGUMAGU, Anthony is a Professor of Agricultural Extension in the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

AGWUNOBI, Leonard is a Professor of Animal Nutrition in the Faculty Agriculture, Forestry and Wildlife Resources Management, University of Calabar, Calabar.

AHMED, Benjamin is a Professor of Agricultural Economics in the Faculty of Agriculture, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria.

AHMED, Hamidu Gwandu is a Professor of Agronomy (Crop Production) in the Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto.

AIHONSU, John is a Professor of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management in the College of Agricultural Sciences, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye.

Aiyedun, Ernest is a Professor of Agricultural Economics in the Faculty of Agricultural Science.

AIYELOJA, Adedapo is a Professor of Forest Economics and Management in the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Port Harcourt.

AJAYI, Adedayo is a Professor of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development in the Faculty of Agriculture, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

AJAYI, Babatunde is a Professor of Wood Products and Bio Resources Technology in the School of Agriculture, FUTA, Akure.

AJAYI, Sunday Adesola is a Professor of Seed Science and Technology, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. He holds.

AJIBEFUN, Igbekele Amos is a Professor of Agricultural Economics in the School of Agric. & Agric. Technology, FUTA

AJIEH, Patrick is a Professor of Agricultural Extension in the Faculty of Agriculture, Delta State University, Abraka. He holds a Ph.D from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. His email is

AKANDE, John Adebayo is a Professor of Environmental Management and Forestry in the Faculty of Agriculture, Bowen University, Iwo.

Akanni, Kassim is a Professor of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management in the Faculty of Agricultural Management and Rural Development, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye.

AKEGBEJO-SAMSONS, Yemi is a Professor of Aquaculture and Coastal Resources Management in the College of Environmental Resources Management, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta.

AKINBOLA, Gabriel is a Professor of Soil Science in the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ibadan, Ibadan.

AKINDELE, Shadrach Olufemi is a Professor of Forestry in the School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology, Federal University of Technology, Akure.

AKINLADE, Jelili is a Professor of Animal Production and Health in the Faculty of Agriculture, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso.

AKINYELE, Benjamin Oluwole is a Professor of Plant Genetics in the School of Agriculture and Agric. Technology, FUTA.

AKPA, Abubakar Dominic is a Professor of Plant Pathology in the Faculty of Agriculture, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria.

AKPABIO, Iniobong is a Professor of Agricultural Extension in the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Uyo.

AKPODIETE, Job is a Professor of Agricultural Biochemistry and Animal Nutrition in the Faculty of Agriculture, Delta State University, Abraka.

ALA, Ahmed Ladan is a Professor of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto.

ALABI, Olufunmilola is a Professor of Plant Pathology in the Faculty of Agriculture, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

ALADESANWA, Rex is a Professor of Chemical Plant Protection in the School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology (SAAT), FUTA.

ALAO, Johnson is a Professor of Forestry in the Faculty of Agriculture, Federal University, Gashua.

ALAWA, John Peter is a Professor of Animal Science in the Faculty of Agriculture, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt.

ALEMEDE, Iyabode is a Professor of Animal Production, Federal University of Technology, Minna.

ALHASSAN, Abdullahi Bala is a Professor of Soil and Water Management in the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Maiduguri.

ALIMBA, Jonathan Okechukwu is a Professor of Agricultural Economics in the Faculty of Agriculture, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki.

ALIYU, Olawale Mashood is a Professor of Plant Breeding and Molecular Genetics in the Kwara State University, Malete.

ALIYU, Umar is Professor of Agronomy in the Faculty of Agriculture, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto.

ALOKAN, Julius is a Professor of Ruminant Nutrition and Management, School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology, FUTA.

ALUFOHAI, Grace is a Professor of Agricultural Economics in the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Benin.

AMAKIRI, Mildred is a Professor of Soil Microbiology in the Faculty of Agriculture, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt.

AMALU, Uche Cyprian is a Professor of Soil Science in the Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Wildlife Resources Management, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria.

AMAPU, Ishaku Yoila is a Professor of Soil Science in the Faculty of Agriculture, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

AMAZA, Paul Sambo is a Professor of Agricultural Economics in the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jos.

AMINU, Abba is a Professor of Agricultural Economics in the Faculty of Agriculture, Bayero University, Kano.

AMINU, Abubakar is a Professor of Agricultural Economics, in Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto.

AMOS, Taiwo is a Professor of Agricultural Economics, Federal University of Technology, Akure.

ANENE, Afamdi is a Professor of Fisheries in the Faculty of Agriculture, Abia State University, Uturu.

ANGBA, Augustine Oko is a Professor of Agricultural Extension in the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Calabar.

ANI, Anthony Okorie is a Professor of Agricultural Extension/Rural Sociology, who teaches in the Department of Agricultural Extension of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri.

ANI, Augustine is a Professor of Animal Nutrition in the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

ANI, Jane is a Professor of Food Chemistry in the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

ANIKWE, Martin is a Professor of Soil Science in the Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources Management, Enugu State University of Science and Technology Enugu Nigeria.

ANYANWU, Sixtus O. is a Professor of Agricultural Economics in the Faculty of Vocational and Technical Education, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rumuolumeni, Port Harcourt.

APATA, David is a Professor of Mono-gastric Nutrition and Feed Toxicology in the College of Agriculture, Kwara State University, Ilorin.

APATA, Olasimbo Motunrayo is a Professor of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development in the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti.

ARDO, Mohammed Baba is a Professor of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology in the School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology, Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola.

AREMU, Ayo is a Professor of Animal Production in the School of Agriculture And Agricultural Technology Federal University of Technology, Minna.

AREMU, Okunlola is a Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Management in the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Benin, Benin City.

ARIFALO, Ebenezer Ibukun is a Professor of Forestry Economic and Policy in the School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology.

AROMOLARAN, Adebayo is a Professor of Agricultural and Development Economics, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State.

ARULEBA, Joseph Olusegun is a Professor of Soil Survey, Pedology and Land Evaluation, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti.

ASADU, Charles is a Professor of Pedology and Soil Survey in the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

ASIABAKA, Chigozie Cyril is a Professor of Agricultural Extension in the School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology, Federal University of Technology, Owerri.

ATUNGWU, Jonathan is a Professor of Plant Nematology in the College of Plant Science and Crop Production, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta.

AWONIYI, Tunde Amos McJones is a Professor of Public Health and Farm Hygiene in the School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology, FUTA.

AYANLAJA, Samson Adenola is a Professor of Soil Science in the College of Agricultural Sciences, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye.

AYANWALE, Bisi is a Professor of Animal Production, Federal University of Technology, Minna. He holds a Ph.D from University of Ibadan (1992).

AYOTUNDE, Ezekiel Olatunji, is a Professor of Fisheries Management, with research interest in Ecotoxicology and Water Chemistry.

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Rosanna Davison reveals she’s still waiting to apply to be her daughter’s legal guardian – Goss.ie

Rosanna Davison has revealed shes still waiting to apply to be her daughters legal guardian.

The former Miss World and her husband Wes Quirke welcomed their first child Sophia via gestational surrogate in November 2019, following years of fertility issues.

At present, surrogacy is unregulated in Irish law and mothers of children born via surrogacy, even through gestational surrogacy in which the child is biologically theirs, have no rights to their children.

Mothers who welcome a child via surrogacy have to wait two years before they can apply through the courts for parental rights, and are not entitled to any maternity benefits as they are currently not legally recognised as the childs mother.

The mother or second parent of a child born through surrogacy also cannot legally consent to medical treatment for their child until they are awarded guardianship.

Speaking to the Irish Times, Rosanna said: I find it incredibly distressing to think of what could happen if we were in a situation where Wes [her husband] became incapacitated or worse.

How would we cope knowing that I had no legal say over what happens to Sophia?

Months after Sophia was born, Rosanna fell pregnant with miracle twins Oscar and Hugo, after suffering 15 miscarriages in the past.

The 37-year-old continued: We fought a hard battle to have her, to bring her into the world, far harder than I fought to have the twins.

To go through the whole egg retrieval process, the stress and trauma on your body of injecting yourself to mature your eggs enough to retrieve them, and everything weve been through to have her. And then to face another fight, its unbelievable.

Pointing out how unfair the system is towards women, Rosanna stressed: Why was Wes allowed to take a DNA test immediately after the babys birth and be proven to be her father, yet Im still waiting two years later to even apply to be her guardian?

Why are we talking about female reproductive systems and Irish law once again? Have we not been here in the last few years?

Im so grateful that we do live in a world where there are women willing to carry a baby for another couple or individual and that we live in a world where medical science has made it possible, she said.

I think Ireland badly needs to catch up with advancements in embryology, methods of conception. Families obviously arent all created in the traditional way and its been like that for many years.

I want Sophia to grow up knowing that she is legally equal to her brothers. She still has to deal with the emotional load, and probably the shock, when we do tell her when shes old enough to understand that I didnt give birth to her to then face legal discrimination for the fact that I didnt give birth to her is another hurdle.

Shes an Irish citizen, as proven by her fathers DNA test, and she needs to be given the same legal opportunities that her brothers, and every other Irish child have.

Earlier this month, Rosanna joined Westlife star Mark Feehily and podcaster Georgie Crawford as they called for achange to Irelands surrogacy laws.

They spoke out after a report in the Sunday Business Post claimed the government will only legislate for domestic surrogacy in the forthcoming assisted human reproduction bill, and will not deal with international surrogacy until a later date.

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The complete list of the Russian Nobel prize winners – Russia Beyond

Following Dmitry Muratov being awarded the Peace prize in October 2021, we recall other Russian laureates of various Nobel prizes over the years.

Ivan Pavlov

Famous for his experiments with dogs, a pioneer in physiology, Pavlov was Russias first ever Nobel prize laureate. He was awarded for his work on digestive physiology. Read more about Pavlov here.

Ilya Mechnikov

Famous biologist and pioneer in embryology, Mechnikov was also called father of innate immunity, and he opened cell-mediated immunity. However, by the time he got the prize for works on immunity, he had already worked for a decade in France, joining Louis Pasteur's institute. Read more about Mechnikovs discovery here.

Ivan Bunin

Ivan Bunin had already emigrated to France when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for the strict artistic talent with which he recreated the typical Russian character in literary prose. Read more about the fight between Ivan Bunin and Maxim Gorky for the prize and the Nobel family connection here.

Nikolay Semyonov

Semyonov was the only Soviet Nobel prize winner in chemistry. He gained the prize for his work on the mechanism of chemical transformation, together with a British physical chemist Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood.

Boris Pasternak

After his opus magnum Doctor Zhivago, banned in the USSR, was published in the West (not without CIA involvement), the Swedish Academy awarded him for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition. The prize caused a scandal in the Soviet Union and after a campaign of intimidation he was forced to decline the award.

Pictured L-R: Pavel Cherenkov, Igor Tamm and Ilya Frank

Three physicists shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery of Cherenkov radiation which was made in the 1930s. Firstly Cherenkov noticed the blue glow of an underwater nuclear reactor, and then together with colleagues they researched and described the phenomenon.

Landau massively contributed to the development of theoretical physics and is considered a founder of the so-called "Landau school" of physicists. He was recognized for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium. Read more about 'DAU' film saga named after Lev Landau.

Alexander Prokhorov and Nikolai Basov

The laser creators, two talented physicists, got the prize for "for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle." They shared the award with American scientist Charles H. Townes who worked in the same field.

Mikhail Sholokhov

The author of the epic novel 'And Quiet Flows the Don' was awarded for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic of the Don, he has given expression to a historic phase in the life of the Russian people. This time the Soviet authorities recognized the award. Read more about Sholokhov here.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The author who struggled with all the horrors of the Soviet labor camps, and then opened the Gulag for the mass reader, was awarded for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature. This time the Soviets started a propaganda campaign against Solzhenitsyn, and he was only able to receive his prize eight years later. Read more about the author here.

Leonid Kantorovich

The Soviet mathematician and economist was a founder of linear programming. He shared the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel with the Dutch-American Tjalling C. Koopmans for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources.

Andrei Sakharov

One of the founders of thermonuclear weapons, a dissident and human rights activist, Sakharov was awarded for his struggle for human rights in the Soviet Union, for disarmament and cooperation between all nations. Five years later he would be asked to leave the USSR for his political activism and campaign against the war in Afghanistan. Read more about Andrei Sakharov here.

Pyotr Kapitsa

A luminary of Soviet physics and a founder of the Institute for Physical Problems was awarded for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics.

Joseph Brodsky

Though he emigrated to the U.S. in 1972 and started writing essays in English, he remained a very Russian poet. A major intellectual, a professor of Russian literature in American universities, he was awarded for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The first Soviet president is still one of the most controversial politicians in Russia, with many people split between blaming him for the collapse of the USSR or praising him for perestroika and freedom of speech. He was among those responsible for the fall of the Berlin Wall. He was awarded for the leading role he played in the radical changes in East-West relations.

Zhores Alferov

A renowned physicist and Russian parliament deputy, Alferov was awarded for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics. He shared the prize with the German-American physicist Herbert Kroemer, who worked in the same field independently.

Alexei Abrikosov, Vitaly Ginzburg

Vitaly Ginzburg took part in the work of previous Nobel prize winners - Cherenkov and Landau, and was one of the authors of the GinzburgLandau theory of superconductivity. Their colleague Abrikosov helped develop the theory by discovering a fluxon called 'Abrikosov vortex' . Since the early 1990s he has lived in the U.S. Two big physicians shared the prize with the British-American physician Sir Anthony James Leggett for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids.

Konstantin Novoselov

Scientist Novoselov left the country in the 1990s, and in the Netherlands he met another Russian-born physician Andre Geim. They started working together, and then moved to the UK, where they continued to collaborate. They are best known for discovering graphene. And they shared the Nobel Prize "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene."

Dmitry Muratov

The editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta was awarded along with Philippine journalist Maria Ressa for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace. It is symbolic that Muratov got the award on the 15th anniversary of the death of Anna Politkovskaya, a Novaya Gazeta journalist who was murdered due to her stories revealing human rights abuses in Russia and Chechnya.Read more about Dmitry Muratov here.

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Merck Foundation Calls for Application for Scholarships for Doctors in Critical and Underserved Specialties in Africa and Developing Countries – THE…

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Merck Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany announced the call for applications for medical training scholarships for healthcare providers in critical and underserved specialities for medical graduates from Africa and developing countries.

Senator, Dr. Rasha Kelej, CEO of Merck Foundation explained, We strongly believe that building professional healthcare capacity and train healthcare providers is the right strategy to transform patient care in the public sector in Africa and developing countries. I am happy to announce the call for applications for scholarships for young local doctors in many critical underserved medical specialties. Our aim is to provide access to quality and equitable healthcare solutions by building professional capacity. I feel beyond proud that more than 1200 doctors from 44 countries have already benefitted from Merck Foundation scholarships in various critical and underserved fields such as Oncology, Diabetes, Preventative Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology, Sexual and Reproductive Medicine, Acute Medicine, Respiratory Medicine, Embryology & Fertility specialty, Rheumatology, Gastroenterology, Dermatology, Psychiatry, Emergency and Resuscitation Medicine, Critical Care, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Neonatal Medicine, Advanced Surgical Practice, Pain Management, Urology, General Surgery, Clinical Microbiology and infectious diseases, Ophthalmology, Internal Medicine, Trauma & Orthopedics, Neuroimaging for research Biotechnology in ART and more.

Merck Foundation has announced Call for Applications for the following online courses:

No.

Degree and Duration

Online Course Name

1

PG Diploma (1 year)

Diabetes

2

PG Diploma (1 Year)

Preventative Cardiovascular Medicine

3

PG Diploma (1 Year)

Sexual and Reproductive Medicine

4

PG Diploma (1 Year)

Endocrinology

5

PG Diploma (1 Year)

Respiratory Medicine

6

PG Diploma (1 Year)

Acute Medicine

7

PG Diploma (1 Year)

Rheumatology

8

PG Diploma (1 Year)

Gastroenterology

9

PG Diploma (1 Year)

Dermatology in Clinical Practice

10

PG Diploma (1 Year)

Clinical Psychiatry

11

MSc (15 Months)

Biotechnology of Human Assisted Reproduction and Embryology

12

PG Diploma (18 months)

Cancer and Clinical Oncology

13

PG Diploma (18 months)

Endocrinology and Diabetes

14

PG Diploma (21 months)

Emergency and Resuscitation Medicine

15

PG Diploma (21 Months)

Laparoscopic Surgical Skills

16

MSc (3 years)

Psychiatry

17

MSc (2 years)

Critical Care

18

MSc (2 years)

Advanced Surgical Practice

19

PG Diploma (2 years)

Neonatal Medicine

20

MSc (2 years)

Pain Management

21

PG Diploma (2 years)

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

22

ChM (Urology) (2 Years)

Urology

23

ChM (General Surgery) (2 Years)

General Surgery

24

ChM (Trauma and Orthopedics) (2 years)

Trauma and orthopedics

25

PG Diploma (2 Years)

Clinical Microbiology and infectious diseases

26

PG Diploma (2 years)

Primary Care Ophthalmology

27

PG Diploma (2 Years)

Internal Medicine

28

MSc (3 Years)

Neuroimaging for Research

How to Apply:

Applications are to be submitted to: https://merck-foundation.com/Merck-Foundation-Capacity-Advancement-Application-Form

Last Date to apply:

31st December 2021

Scholarship Eligibility Criteria

All Merck Foundation scholarships are provided to nationals of African Countries, Developing countries, and underserved communities as per the World Human Development Index list of Developing countries. Refer to the link: http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/latest-human-development-index-ranking

Merck Foundation Scientific Committee and Scientific Committee of Academic Partners will focus on African countries with a special focus on French-speaking and Portuguese speaking and SIDS (Small Islands Developing State), with the aim to build healthcare capacity and transform patient care in the public sector which is under pressure due to its limited resources. Therefore, requests from Ministries of Health (MOH) or Medical Societies are preferable. In case of individual requests, a recommendation letter from MOH or Medical Societies of these countries will be required to indicate your country's gap in the specific specialty and the objective of improving access to equitable and quality patient care in your community is identified and fulfilled.

Moreover, Merck Foundation Scientific Committee will take into consideration in the selection process the following factors when it is needed: The Human Development Index, Population and number of eligible applications received from each country, and number of scholarships that have been already provided to each country in such specialties.

Moreover, Merck Foundation plans to offer English courses to candidates applied from French and Portuguese speaking African countries and also to Latin American countries, to give them an equal opportunity to benefit from the online specialty training which is provided only in English (List of Online courses given above).

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Has evolution breathed its last? | Bob Seidensticker – Patheos

This is the conclusion of a critique of a Greg Koukl podcast about the death of evolution (part 1here). Since some Christians refuse to stop embarrassing themselves with this stupid argument, I will continue to see it as a civic duty to laugh at them.

After much overconfident bluster about why evolution has breathed its last, Koukl finally gives the three reasons supporting this conclusion.

1. Abiogenesis. First you have the insurmountable problem of getting living stuff from dead stuff.... This is not just a problem. This is an insurmountable problem. (17:45)

Insurmountable? Write your paper detailing the proof and collect your Nobel Prize. (True, there is no Nobel Prize in Biology, yet, but Im sure that will change once Koukl documents his breakthrough.)

What will you do if a consensus view for abiogenesisdoesdevelop over the next decade or so? Let me guess: youll not apologize, youll sweep under the rug the fact that you backed the wrong horse, youll hope that no one remembers, and youll stumble forward grasping for some new as-yet-unanswered question within science, learning absolutely nothing from the experience.

2. Cambrian Explosion. Koukl focuses on the basics, which is that he doesnt like evolution and thinks that the Cambrian Explosion is fatal to it. Hes not so good on details like when it happened (hes off by about a factor of six; in fact, it began roughly 541 million years ago and lasted for 2025 million years).

The big deal about the Cambrian Explosion is that most of the 30-some animal phyla (the top-level category, which defines the basic body plans) appear for the first time in the fossil record in this relatively brief period.

Here are some reasons why this rapid emergence of phyla isnt a nail in evolutions coffin.

Source:Wikipedia (with changes)

3. Genes dont explain everything. Mutation of DNA is a key part of evolution, but DNA only codes for protein. Thats only part of the picture, Koukl tells ushow do you get the body? That requires epigenetics. Thats not in the genes. Now, theyre working on it, trying to figure it out, but if its not in the genes, if the genes arent doing the work, then natural selection doesnt do its work on genetic mutations, then that is neo-Darwinism, and its dead (22:10).

Im not sure what Koukl is getting at. Embryology is fairly well understood, and we can see a single cell develop according to the body plan defined in its DNA. Magic isnt necessary. And, yes, epigenetics is a new and exciting aspect of genetics. There is much to be learned. But a naturalistic explanation remains the best explanation. If evolution is changing, well, thats just what science does as it adapts to new facts.

Taking a step back, I see several problems. One is the unstated idea that if evolution can be defeated, Creationism will step in to take its place as the explanation of why life is the way it is. NopeCreationism can only replace evolution when the evidence shows that it can better explain the facts.All the facts.

Scientific theories stand on their own merits, not on the failure of other theories. Or, if I could use a schoolyard analogy that might be more in Creationists wheelhouse: tattling on someone whos misbehaving in class doesnt improve your grade.

That Koukl is talking to the public and not to scientists reveals both his agenda and his impotence. Hes got PR, not evidence.

The other problem is that this entire tantrum seems to be semantic. His agenda seems to be finding a loophole so that you cant call it the neo-Darwinian Project anymore (ignoring the fact that no one worth listening to calls it that).

In Koukls wildest dreams, biology would develop in radical new ways so that evolution taught twenty years ago, say, will be seen as inadequate or incomplete in important ways. But how does that help? Once Koukls smoke screen clears, the naturalistic discipline that explains how life developed on earth (whatever you want to call it) is still there, with no role for God to play.

Ive written about two related issues, theRube Goldbergappearance of life (rather than appearance of design) and the question ofinformationin DNA.

Koukl next brings up atheist philosopher Thomas Nagel, who says that evolution wont allow for consciousness.

This is yet another question that might get answered, as tends to happen with scientific puzzles. Koukls argument is nothing more than: Science has unanswered questions; therefore, God. Again, he forgets that a weakness in science (I see no weakness here, but lets pretend there is) does nothing to support the God argument. Such an argument must stand on its own.

He concludes by ticking off the unanswered questionsabiogenesis, the Cambrian Explosion, and the evolution of consciousnessand concludes, Incidentally, these are no problem whatsoever for our point of view.

YeahGod did it explains everything. Of course, youve given us no good evidence for the God side of the question, but never mind. The real problem is that God did it is unfalsifiable. You could apply it to anything, and I couldnt prove you wrong. Therefore, its useless. By explaining everything, it explains nothing. Scientific theories must be falsifiable.

Koukls argument reminds me of Michael Dentons 1986 bookEvolution: A Theory in Crisis. His 30th-anniversary edition was titled Evolution:Stilla Theory in Crisis (emphasis added). Creationists keep predicting that evolution is dead, and it keeps not being dead. Perhaps theres a lesson here that Creationists arent learning.

What we have in Koukl is a popular Christian apologist (who has a religious agenda) who talks with a popular Christian science-y person (who has the same religious agenda) about their rejection of the scientific consensus. They reassure each other that theyve indeed backed the right horse, and they shore up their argument with smug confidence.

Popularizing consensus science is one thing (this is what I do sometimes), but rejecting it is another (this is what Koukl does, often). I put Creationists in with the anti-vaxxers.

See also: A Response to David Gelernters Attack on Evolution

The difference between a cult and a religion:in a cult there is a person at the top who knows its a scam,and in a religion that person is dead. seen on the internet

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Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York Presents Innovative Research at ASRM’s 77th Annual Meeting – KKTV 11 News

RMA of New York leads the way with ground-breaking innovative genomics and artificial intelligence research to improve patient care and IVF success rates

Published: Oct. 19, 2021 at 9:00 AM MDT

BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Physicians and scientists at Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York (RMA of New York) and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York presented a record 35 original scientific abstracts at the 77th annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) in Baltimore, Maryland. Research topics included single cell DNA sequencing, disparities in health care outcomes, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the patient journey.

"Despite the unprecedented and ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, our team of trainees, care providers, and scientists demonstrated personal resilience, scholarly excellence, and unprecedented scientific ingenuity," stated Dr. Alan B. Copperman, Co-Director of RMA of New York, Vice Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.

COVID-19 and its effects on fertility and pregnancy were a focus of this year's academic congress. In a highly anticipated study led by Dr. Devora Aharon and co-authors at RMA of New York, the team explored whether there was any evidence of correlation between the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and the implantation rate of euploid embryos, and determined that vaccinated patients did not demonstrate compromised implantation rates or live birth rates. Further expanding on COVID-19 and fertility, a study by RMA of NY and Generate Life Science (Los Angeles, CA) demonstrated that sperm counts are not affected in healthy donors who test positive for COVID-19.

Dr. Jenna Friedenthal presented novel research focused on gaining greater insights into the development of mosaic embryos. Her research on single cell sequencing of whole human blastocystsexpands our current understanding of the genetic composition of human embryos. Exploring early development, the results demonstrate that some degree of embryonic mosaicism may be part of normal human embryonic blastocyst development.

Additionally, Dr. Alan Copperman and RMA of New York's Clinical Embryology Associate Laboratory Director, Richard Slifkin, were selected to host a symposium highlighting the future of fertility with artificial intelligence in the IVF laboratory. Dr. Copperman added, "This is the year we really were able to leverage big data and create personalized predictive models that provide clinical decision support to help patients make more informed decisions.From the molecular to the personal to the community level, we are making tremendous strides towards preventing and treating infertility and enhancing access to care for all."

About Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York, LLP

Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York (RMA of New York) is widely recognized as a global leader in state-of-the-art reproductive medicine. Led by an integrated team of doctors and scientists with extensive reproductive endocrinology, fertility and urology experience and training, RMA of New York consistently reports high success rates in the treatment of infertility to the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). RMA of New York is committed to increasing access to care by helping patients optimize their insurance coverage and access financing options for treatment. RMA of New York is sensitive to the needs of the LGBTQ+ community, women choosing single-parent motherhood, and women pursuing fertility preservation for elective indications as well as those in need of oncofertility services. Headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, RMA of New York has six patient care facilities in New York, including four facilities in Manhattan, as well as sites in Brooklyn, White Plains, Mount Kisco, throughout Long Island, and abroad in Mexico City. For more information, please visit http://www.rmany.com .

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