8/8 More info: discoverbrigham.org/2025-connors...
📢 Stay tuned for our publication!
#WomensHealth #AgingResearch
@mgbresearch.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social

7/8 Huge thanks to organizers Dr. Hadine Joffe, Dr. Laura Holsen & Dr. Dawn DeMeo, to the other speakers: Dr. Jiajia Dai, Hannah Reiter, Dr. Xingyan Wang, and to keynote speaker Dr. Davide Cirillo who discussed AI biases in health & biomedicine 🤖

6/8 📢 We are open for collaboration — especially those who have access to menstrual blood collections. Let’s connect! 🤝

5/8 Why does this matter?
✅ Our model enables earlier risk stratification
🧪It supports testing of menopause-delaying interventions
📈It helps us better understand women’s aging trajectories

4/8 We further found that early menarche is linked to accelerated aging of the female reproductive system and increased risk for several age-related diseases

3/8 🔍 We used @UK Biobank plasma proteomics to build a model that predicts menopause onset and outperforms existing blood-based markers
🧠We also link menopause to organ-specific aging

2/8 ⚠️Did you know the ovary is the first organ to fail with older age — decades before most other organs?
Yet menopause remains poorly understood, hard to predict, and tied to increased disease risk of age-related disease.