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Reproductive Sciences

Reproductive Sciences

 

Significant Accomplishments

Division Members Receive Grant Funding

Several faculty members received new grant awards in FY11.

  • Takiko Daikoku, PhD, received the $50,000 Perinatal Institute Pilot and Feasibility Funding grant from Cincinnati Children’s Perinatal Institute for her project, “In pursuit of Lgr5 regulation and function in the uterus.”
  • Satoshi Namekawa, PhD, received the March of Dimes Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Award of $150,000 for a two-year period for his project, “Regulation of sex chromosome inactivation by the FANC/BRCA Pathway.”
  • S.K. Dey, PhD, received the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Round 5 grant of $100,000 for 18 months for his project, “Targeting mTOR signaling to prevent preterm birth.” This pilot funding allows for the opportunity to compete for additional research funds.  
  • Yuya Ogawa, PhD, received a Cincinnati Children’s Trustee Grant of $60,000 a year for two years for his project, “The mechanism of escape genes on the inactive X-chromosome.”
  • Sanjoy Das, PhD, had his National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences R01 grant, “Environmental Toxins and Uterine Gene Expression,” funded at $330,000 a year.   

Training of Students and Postdoctoral Fellows    

The Division of Reproductive Sciences continued to demonstrate its commitment to training the next generation of reproductive sciences researchers. Xiaofei Sun (in the Dey lab) successfully defended his dissertation and received his PhD from Vanderbilt University in July  2010. He has chosen to stay with the Dey lab to continue his postdoctoral work. Sun is a recent recipient of a Lalor Foundation postdoctoral fellowship. Poornima Chandran, a Fulbright fellow from Osmania University in Hyderabad, India, trained with the division for  10 months. Her research will contribute to her PhD requirements. Mikihiro Yoshie, PhD, joined the division as a visiting research fellow. Yoshie is supported by the Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences. In addition, the division has continued to train many postdoctoral fellows and graduate students from other institutions in specific laboratory techniques, in the hopes that these skills will be used to expand the field of reproductive research.   
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