Table 10: Publish and Flourish

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Ron Magness, PhD

What is Your Current Position?

Director, College of Medicine Obstetrics & Gynecology and Professor, College of Medicine Obstetrics & Gynecology at the USF Health at the University of South Florida.

What are your current research endeavors and/or other academic contributions?

I have built a research group and pioneered work on vascular biology changes during pregnancy with a particular emphasis on endothelial NO and angiogenesis via ATP, placental growth factors (VEG/FGF-2), and shear stress. My expertise is in uterine, fetal and placental physiology and cardiovascular function and my lab have developed numerous in vivo physiological and in vitro models centered on uteroplacental and fetoplacental vascular biology. The Magness lab has also made major models contributions and provided extensive experience in studying uterine, systemic and placental vascular modeling, and blood vessel development as it relates to placental derived steroid and angiogenic growth factor regulation of endothelial and vascular smooth muscle function.

 

Errol Norwitz, MD, PhD, MBA

What is Your Current Position?

I am Chief Scientific Officer and the Louis E. Phaneuf Professor and Chair of the Department of OB/GYN at Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. I completed my medical training at the University of Cape Town (South Africa), my PhD at Oxford University (England) on a Rhodes Scholarship, and my OB/GYN Residency and Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship at Harvard University. I am also a Founding Investigator of the Mother Infant Research Institute at Tufts Medical Center. Most recently, I received my MBA from the Questrom School of Business at Boston University.

What are your current research endeavors and/or other academic contributions?

I am the author of 12 textbooks, 80 book chapters, and more than 250 original research articles and reviews. My research has been supported by NIH/NICHD and March of Dimes as well as many institutional and industry sponsors. My primary areas of research interest include the genetics of adverse pregnancy outcome and the molecular regulation of parturition, both at term and preterm.

What has been the most pivotal moment in your career?

Attaining the Rhodes Scholarship.

What is one piece of advice you would give to a trainee?

Mentorship is key! If you think about it, you don’t get to choose your parents, you don’t get to choose your ethnicity, or what country you were born in, or your religion, or your children …. But you do get to choose your research mentor. So take this decision very seriously.

 

Bo Yu, MD

What is Your Current Position?

Assistant Professor, Division of REI, Dept of OBGYN, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

What are your current research endeavors and/or other academic contributions?

Epigenomic changes associated with oocyte maturation and assisted reproductive technologies

What has been the most pivotal moment in your career?

Yet to come

What is one piece of advice you would give to a trainee?

Biomedical science is a team sport.