A biologist at Wichita State University has made a breakthrough discovery about human reproductive hormones that scientists say could give women worldwide new hope in solving fertility problems.
The National Institutes of Health, the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research, is giving WSU scientist George Bousfield a five-year, $6.6 million grant for further research.
It is the biggest grant WSU has ever received, except for aviation research, university officials said.
What’s more, they said, most NIH grants go to big universities or research institutions with big budgets. Bousfield, they said, won this grant while working for the past 10 years in his crowded lab on the fourth floor of Hubbard Hall.
Bousfield discovered a variation in a human fertility hormone that no one knew about before. And he is sure that the hormone variation acts in a way that might unlock secrets about human reproduction, and how to enhance it.
Tags : infertility, research
Categories : Medical Research
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surrogacyforall
June 1st, 2009 at 7:02 pm
It is not clear what exactly they are planning to study. A hormone?
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