I can’t believe it has been over 4 months since my last post.

I have been busy taking care of patients, writing a new grant about sperm and recurrent pregnancy loss and recruiting patients for my funded pilot project on establishing trophoblast stem cells from miscarriages.

The BIG NEWS is that I am part of a research consortium that is funded by the NIH to investigate the Genomic Predictors of Recurrent Pregnancy Loss (GPRPL study). Myself, and my former colleagues at Yale and 11 other centers around the country will be carrying out this important study to find new genetic issues related to recurrent pregnancy loss. At present, we know if a miscarriage has abnormal chromosomes, such as an extra chromosome or loss of a chromosome (called aneuploidy) this will lead to pregnancy loss. However, now that sequencing technology is much less expensive, we are likely to find small genetic problems that may be lethal to a pregnancy. The purpose of this study is to find if there are genetic issues that can be inherited from mother or father or both that could lead to recurrent pregnancy loss. Our recruitment will start in Sept 2021 so watch this space on more details…