Welcome!

Laura Hernandez. Professor, Dairy Science. Lactation biology.
Laura Hernandez, PhD
Program Director
Manish Patankar, Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology; ERP Program Associate Director, Epithelial Ovarian Cancer (EOS)
Manish Patankar, PhD
Associate Program Director

The Endocrinology and Reproductive Physiology Graduate Program is an interdisciplinary endocrine program with a longstanding focus on reproduction. Our faculty’s research spans from disordered metabolism (such as hypertension, obesity and diabetes) to reproductive biology (such as sexual differentiation, fetal programming, pregnancy complications, and cancers of the reproductive tract.) We use a variety of multidisciplinary approaches in our research, from stem cells and cellular/molecular biology, to comparative physiology, to translational work in humans. We are able to provide such diversity in research opportunities thanks to the varied backgrounds more than 50 faculty trainers, drawn from 15 departments across 5 schools and colleges.

ERP Events

ERP News

  • Sejal Sharma – first-author publication

    ERP PhD Candidate, Sejal Sharma, recently published her work, “Data Mining of PubChem Bioassay Records Reveals Diverse OXPHOS Inhibitory Chemotypes as Potential Therapeutic Agents Against Ovarian Cancer,” in Journal of Cheminformatics. This…

  • Welcoming Dr. Samantha Weaver to ERP Training Faculty

    ERP is delighted to announce that Dr. Samantha “Sam” Weaver has joined the ERP Training Faculty.  Dr. Weaver is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Biosciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison…

  • Alissa Hofmann Wins ABRCMS Travel Award

    Congratulations to Alissa Hofmann (PhD student, Kumar lab) for being selected to receive a travel award for the 2024 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) to be held in Pittsburgh,…

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Recent ERP Milestones

  • 09/24/2024: Allison Spillane (Lab of Bikash Pattnaik) preliminary exam successfully passed.
  • 09/04/2024:  Cora Thompson (Lab of Joanie Jorgensen) preliminary exam successfully passed.
  • 08/20/2024:  Si-yan Zhang (Lab of Jing Zheng) preliminary exam successfully passed.
  • 07/17/2024:  Erin Miners (Lab of Francisco Pelegri) MS thesis successfully defended.
  • 07/12/2024:  Soma Banerjee (Lab of Aleks Stanic-Kostic) PhD dissertation successfully defended.