Kate Lawrenson
@lawrensonlab.bsky.social
endometriosis | ovarian cancer | genomics | biobanking | risk genetics
co-director, center for inherited oncogenesis, UT Health San Antonio
associate director, office of postdoctoral affairs
co-director, center for inherited oncogenesis, UT Health San Antonio
associate director, office of postdoctoral affairs
Excited to participate in the first meeting for Advances in Human Health through #Spatial Omics and #AI
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September 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Excited to participate in the first meeting for Advances in Human Health through #Spatial Omics and #AI
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STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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One thing the MAHA report is seriously missing: connection to reality. You can’t tackle chronic illness while gutting the workforce that prevents it. Health departments hollowed out, $11b of directed federal support pulled, 20k jobs at health agencies eliminated.
zurl.co/QUnUU
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Deep cuts erode the foundations of US public health system, end progress, threaten worse to come
Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy.
zurl.co
June 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
One thing the MAHA report is seriously missing: connection to reality. You can’t tackle chronic illness while gutting the workforce that prevents it. Health departments hollowed out, $11b of directed federal support pulled, 20k jobs at health agencies eliminated.
zurl.co/QUnUU
zurl.co/QUnUU
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Every scientist should discuss the consequences of the NIH and NSF grant terminations and delays and failure to fund at their home institution at the end of a talk or seminar. Even if a scientist’s own funding is not threatened, I GUARANTEE there is someone at their institution affected.
It's breaking my brain to hear amazing talks that show treatments that help patients developed out of fundamental research, while temporarily ignoring the backdrop of the American science funding disaster
June 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Every scientist should discuss the consequences of the NIH and NSF grant terminations and delays and failure to fund at their home institution at the end of a talk or seminar. Even if a scientist’s own funding is not threatened, I GUARANTEE there is someone at their institution affected.
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Cutler & Glaser in JAMA: The proposed budgetary cuts to NIH will create a social cost 16 times greater than the savings the administration is attempting to achieve. The Trump administration should recognize that funding science is good economic as well as health policy.
June 2, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Cutler & Glaser in JAMA: The proposed budgetary cuts to NIH will create a social cost 16 times greater than the savings the administration is attempting to achieve. The Trump administration should recognize that funding science is good economic as well as health policy.
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Women make up only 16% of corresponding authors who submit to Nature, a new Springer Nature analysis revealed. This is not enough - there are 30-40% #womeninSTEM
We want to change it, through targeted editorial policies & outreach. But change will take everyone!
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
We want to change it, through targeted editorial policies & outreach. But change will take everyone!
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gender equality in research publishing is a responsibility for everyone
A concerted effort is needed to support women in their choice of journal when submitting their manuscript.
www.nature.com
May 31, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Women make up only 16% of corresponding authors who submit to Nature, a new Springer Nature analysis revealed. This is not enough - there are 30-40% #womeninSTEM
We want to change it, through targeted editorial policies & outreach. But change will take everyone!
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
We want to change it, through targeted editorial policies & outreach. But change will take everyone!
🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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1/🧬 Excited to share our latest paper in Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com. We analyzed germline sequencing data from 400,000+ women to strengthen how we classify BRCA1 & BRCA2 variants.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Analysis of more than 400,000 women provides case-control evidence for BRCA1 and BRCA2 variant classification - Nature Communications
BRCA1 and BRCA2 are well known breast cancer predisposition genes, however, many variants have not yet been classified for their pathogenicity. Here, the authors analyse a large combined cohort to pro...
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May 26, 2025 at 6:56 AM
1/🧬 Excited to share our latest paper in Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com. We analyzed germline sequencing data from 400,000+ women to strengthen how we classify BRCA1 & BRCA2 variants.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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What a day! Incredible energy & inspiring conversations at the #wce2025 joint WES/WERF #Endometriosis Interdisciplinary Research Directions Workshop. So much momentum - and so much important work ahead
May 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
What a day! Incredible energy & inspiring conversations at the #wce2025 joint WES/WERF #Endometriosis Interdisciplinary Research Directions Workshop. So much momentum - and so much important work ahead
Wrapping up #WCE2025 with a passionate discussion about the value of interdisciplinary care for #endometriosis
May 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Wrapping up #WCE2025 with a passionate discussion about the value of interdisciplinary care for #endometriosis
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Excellent talk from @meaghangriff.bsky.social from Centre for Reproductive Health at University of Edinburgh at #wce2025 presenting her work exploring the biological mechanisms behind endometriosis-associated infertility @edinuni-irr.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Excellent talk from @meaghangriff.bsky.social from Centre for Reproductive Health at University of Edinburgh at #wce2025 presenting her work exploring the biological mechanisms behind endometriosis-associated infertility @edinuni-irr.bsky.social
Genomes, transcriptomes and proteomes, oh my!
Enjoyed participating in this mornings session on advances in molecular analyses of #endometriosis
#wce2025
Enjoyed participating in this mornings session on advances in molecular analyses of #endometriosis
#wce2025
May 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Genomes, transcriptomes and proteomes, oh my!
Enjoyed participating in this mornings session on advances in molecular analyses of #endometriosis
#wce2025
Enjoyed participating in this mornings session on advances in molecular analyses of #endometriosis
#wce2025
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Informative talk from PhD student Kate Gunther telling us about what works & what you need to give a bit more attention to, when generating #organoids from different types of #endometriosis lesions. #WCE2025
May 23, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Informative talk from PhD student Kate Gunther telling us about what works & what you need to give a bit more attention to, when generating #organoids from different types of #endometriosis lesions. #WCE2025
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Senior Research Associate Kristie Dickson from my group giving a short poster talk on work on co-culture of #ovariancancer & endometrial stromal cells … driving an inflammatory microenvironment that may be targetable in #endometriosis-related ovarian cancers. #WCE2025
May 23, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Senior Research Associate Kristie Dickson from my group giving a short poster talk on work on co-culture of #ovariancancer & endometrial stromal cells … driving an inflammatory microenvironment that may be targetable in #endometriosis-related ovarian cancers. #WCE2025
Promising progress in modeling #endometriosis in vitro and in vivo from the Greaves, Rogers, Griffith, Angelsio, McKinnon labs and more
These tools are essential for progressing #translationalresearch but endo is very complex- this work is not for the faint hearted! 💪
#WCE2025
These tools are essential for progressing #translationalresearch but endo is very complex- this work is not for the faint hearted! 💪
#WCE2025
May 23, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Promising progress in modeling #endometriosis in vitro and in vivo from the Greaves, Rogers, Griffith, Angelsio, McKinnon labs and more
These tools are essential for progressing #translationalresearch but endo is very complex- this work is not for the faint hearted! 💪
#WCE2025
These tools are essential for progressing #translationalresearch but endo is very complex- this work is not for the faint hearted! 💪
#WCE2025
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NEW RESEARCH We used smartwatches to track daily symptoms in people with #Endometriosis
📉 More fatigue = less movement
💤 Severe symptoms = worse sleep + rhythm
🔁 Surgery effects showed up in both symptoms & wearable data
@exppect @ENDO1000project
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
📉 More fatigue = less movement
💤 Severe symptoms = worse sleep + rhythm
🔁 Surgery effects showed up in both symptoms & wearable data
@exppect @ENDO1000project
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
May 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
NEW RESEARCH We used smartwatches to track daily symptoms in people with #Endometriosis
📉 More fatigue = less movement
💤 Severe symptoms = worse sleep + rhythm
🔁 Surgery effects showed up in both symptoms & wearable data
@exppect @ENDO1000project
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
📉 More fatigue = less movement
💤 Severe symptoms = worse sleep + rhythm
🔁 Surgery effects showed up in both symptoms & wearable data
@exppect @ENDO1000project
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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🌟 SHROxEd - Congratulations to all presenters at 1st joint Edinburgh/Oxford Reproductive Health Postgraduate Symposium! 🌟
A day of fascinating research & standout presentations. Excited to see how this work shapes the future of reproductive health.
#ReproductiveHealth @edinuni-irr.bsky.social
A day of fascinating research & standout presentations. Excited to see how this work shapes the future of reproductive health.
#ReproductiveHealth @edinuni-irr.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🌟 SHROxEd - Congratulations to all presenters at 1st joint Edinburgh/Oxford Reproductive Health Postgraduate Symposium! 🌟
A day of fascinating research & standout presentations. Excited to see how this work shapes the future of reproductive health.
#ReproductiveHealth @edinuni-irr.bsky.social
A day of fascinating research & standout presentations. Excited to see how this work shapes the future of reproductive health.
#ReproductiveHealth @edinuni-irr.bsky.social
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We show #endometriosis treatments are failing to address fatigue, a key quality-of-life issue
🔹 2,907 responses
🔹 54% say GnRH agonists worsened fatigue
🔹 Most treatments showed little benefit
📄 Read the research: raf.bioscientifica.com/view/journal... @endo1000.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social
🔹 2,907 responses
🔹 54% say GnRH agonists worsened fatigue
🔹 Most treatments showed little benefit
📄 Read the research: raf.bioscientifica.com/view/journal... @endo1000.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
We show #endometriosis treatments are failing to address fatigue, a key quality-of-life issue
🔹 2,907 responses
🔹 54% say GnRH agonists worsened fatigue
🔹 Most treatments showed little benefit
📄 Read the research: raf.bioscientifica.com/view/journal... @endo1000.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social
🔹 2,907 responses
🔹 54% say GnRH agonists worsened fatigue
🔹 Most treatments showed little benefit
📄 Read the research: raf.bioscientifica.com/view/journal... @endo1000.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social
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Amazing talk from Frankie Hearn-Yeates from Centre for Reproductive Health at University of Edinburgh showing that fatigue in #endometriosis is associated with changes in the gut microbiome and metabolome! @edinuni-irr.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Amazing talk from Frankie Hearn-Yeates from Centre for Reproductive Health at University of Edinburgh showing that fatigue in #endometriosis is associated with changes in the gut microbiome and metabolome! @edinuni-irr.bsky.social
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Inspiring plenary from my friend & colleague Prof Caroline Ford - need to now apply all that we have learnt about precision medicine through oncology to #endometriosis … another disease with tonnes of heterogeneity #WCE2025
May 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Inspiring plenary from my friend & colleague Prof Caroline Ford - need to now apply all that we have learnt about precision medicine through oncology to #endometriosis … another disease with tonnes of heterogeneity #WCE2025
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First day of the 16th World Congress on Endometriosis listening to Mike Anglesio from Vancouver telling us about challenges working with endometriotic lesions … . Happy to be learning at my first endometriosis conference & in my home town to boot 😊 #WCE2025
May 21, 2025 at 10:53 AM
First day of the 16th World Congress on Endometriosis listening to Mike Anglesio from Vancouver telling us about challenges working with endometriotic lesions … . Happy to be learning at my first endometriosis conference & in my home town to boot 😊 #WCE2025
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Great Welcome to Country this morning at the World Congress on Endometriosis in Sydney. >1,100 attendees from 60 countries. From co-organiser Prof Jason Abbott - “we are all friends here”. #WCE2025
May 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Great Welcome to Country this morning at the World Congress on Endometriosis in Sydney. >1,100 attendees from 60 countries. From co-organiser Prof Jason Abbott - “we are all friends here”. #WCE2025
May 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Fun debate to end to today’s #WCE2025 events - do we need a change to our approach to #endometriosis #research?! What’s your vote?!
May 22, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Fun debate to end to today’s #WCE2025 events - do we need a change to our approach to #endometriosis #research?! What’s your vote?!