Women’s health research often crosses boundaries between specialties, technologies and stages of life. The Second Annual UC San Diego Women’s Health Symposium brought those connections into focus, highlighting how collaboration can move research questions toward better understanding, new tools and future approaches to care.
Hosted by the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences and the Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology Research Innovation (CORI), the symposium was built around partnerships. The program brought together work in gynecologic care, menopause and healthy aging, fertility, pregnancy, pelvic health, cardiovascular disease, neuroscience, data science and biotechnology. Flash talks and poster presentations gave researchers additional opportunities to share emerging ideas and connect across fields.
Several presentations showed how new technologies are being applied to longstanding health questions. Topics included non-invasive fertility testing, regenerative biomaterials, earlier Alzheimer’s detection in women, artificial intelligence in pregnancy research and AI-enabled approaches to studying placental cells. Other sessions examined the biology of labor, recovery after maternal birth injury, cardiovascular care during pregnancy and the potential for startups to accelerate innovation in women’s health.
That range reflects CORI’s broader mission: using team science and community partnerships to address gaps in women’s healthcare and deepen understanding of female biology. Its work connects clinical research with science and technology, bioinformatics, program development and community partnership.
The symposium also emphasized something less easily captured in a single research result: progress often depends on creating opportunities for people from different disciplines to work together. By bringing those perspectives into the same conversation, the event offered a view of women’s health research as an increasingly collaborative field—one shaped not only by new discoveries, but by the connections that help make those discoveries possible.
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