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Laura Hernandez, PhD Manish Patankar, PhD
Program Director 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 News
Welcoming Tanja Dominko to ERP Program
Faculty Page : https://erp.wisc.edu/staff/dominko-tanja/ Research Focus: The Dominko Lab focuses on the effects of tissue environment on fibroblast behaviors during wound healing. We are interested in the molecular mechanisms responsible for oxygen and growth factor …
October 15, 2024Sejal 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 research, conducted under …
October 15, 2024Welcoming Sam Weaver to ERP Program
Faculty page : https://erp.wisc.edu/staff/weaver-samantha/ Research Focus Musculoskeletal conditions are among the leading reasons that people visit their doctor. Diseases like osteoarthritis and osteoporosis cause significant economic and societal burdens as nearly a trillion US dollars …
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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.