Our research informs how we care for our patients and includes technological advances, improving clinical best practices and focusing on issues patients can control, such as the link between weight, nutrition and fertility. This unique research expertise helps us deliver transformational treatments and allows us to help patients consistently achieve success. The work we do also influences our specialty’s approach to patient care. For example, our research with the National Institutes of Health proved that an inexpensive medication was 30 percent more effective than a more commonly used medication in helping women with polycystic ovary syndrome – one of the most common causes of infertility – become pregnant.
​The Johnson Lab has a goal of understanding the control of oocyte number and egg quality.
​Research in the Kumar Lab has a significant impact in understanding the physiology and pathology of the reproductive axis including abnormal reproductive tract development, infertility, ovarian aging, bone loss and cancer of the pituitary and gonads.​​
​The Polotsky Lab studies how maternal obesity impacts the health of offspring by defining essential characteristics of FSH-ovarian interactions using a multidisciplinary approach.
​The Santoro Lab focused on the reproductive endocrinology of ovarian failure, menopause and perimenopause, and more recently on the effects of obesity on reproduction in women.
Our faculty have a mission of advancing the reproductive endocrinology and infertility field through the education of current and future women’s health physicians and researchers. We are dedicated to the training of medical students and residents, and have an established Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (REI) Fellowship where we will train the next generation of reproductive medicine specialists.
Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Âé¶¹´«Ã½¸ßÇå Mission
​The CU Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility started in 2009. Our ACGME accredited allows fellows to excel in both clinical and research arena and have been selec​ted for ASRM prize paper presentations (2011, 2014) and the SREI National Research Training Program in Reproductive Medicine (2014).
The REI Division is dedicated to the education and empowerment of the infertility community through our involvement in local and national associations, awareness campaigns and advocacy for infertility policy changes that can improve patient access to treatment.
Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Community Impact Mission