Mission: Engage in innovative research that leads to impactful discoveries in all aspects of human reproduction, while fostering a team-centric, inclusive mentoring environment. 

Vision: Be a leading research hub that accelerates knowledge to improve human reproductive health.

Investigators in the Division of Reproductive Sciences are focused on a broad range of topics related to reproductive health, including:  

• Placental development and function
• Placental immunology
• Pre-eclampsia
• Prematurity
• Uterine fibroids
• Ovarian cancer
• Cervical cancer
• Uterine contractility and abnormal labor
• Urinary microbiome
• Overactive bladder
• Epigenetics and epigenomics of gynecologic health and disease
• Imprinted genes in reproductive health and outcomes
• Impacts of the preconception environment

In addition to studies using human specimens and data, we use a number of model systems, including for example:

In vitro models:

• Placental trophoblast cell lines, stem cells, primary cells and placental barrier-on-a-chip. 
• Organoid models of ovarian cancer
• Stem cell model of spermatogenesis

In vivo models:

• Rabbit and rat model of reproductive health and the health of offspring including immune function and neurobehavioral development. 
• Rat model of ovarian cancer
• Mouse models of ovarian cancer