Research

We are working on multiple exciting, translational, and impactful research projects advancing women’s reproductive health, including biology, medicine, drug development, and toxicology:

1. Impacts of environmental contaminants and pharmaceutics on women’s reproductive health, in particular of the ovaries and uterus and associated menstrual cycles, fertility, early pregnancy, and reproductive diseases (e.g., infertility, PCOS, early pregnancy loss, etc)

2. Engineering an ovary-on-chip and female reproductive tsystem-on-chip using microfluidics, 3D printing, and organoid technologies

3. Non-hormonal contraceptive development targeting ovulation

4. Environmental impact on women’s reproductive diseases, such as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), anovulation, and infertility.

 

Our research is generously supported by EOHSI at Rutgers, Rutgers Office of Research, NIEHS and NICHD (R01 ES035766, R01HD114750, R01HD115810, R01ES032144, P01ES028942, and UH3ES029073), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (INV-003385), Department of Defense (DOD, TX220205), Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI), and New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP).