BoR Winners Webinar Series

Dr. Ramkumar Menon is a tenured Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology/Cell biology at the University Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, TX. He is also the Director of the Division of Basic Science and Translational Research at UTMB. The primary focus of his lab is to design strategies to reduce PTB risk using extracellular vesicles as a drug delivery vehicle to treat the fetal inflammatory response. His lab is also involved in developing various Organ-on-Chip models for various intrauterine organ systems. His research is currently funded by multiple grants from the National Institute of Health (NIH, USA) and other non-federal agencies. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. Dr. Menon is also a mentor to over 30 medical and postgraduate students. Dr. Menon is also the executive director of Preterm birth International Collaborative, not-for-profit research and educational organization involved in preterm birth research.

Click here to access this BOR winning publication: https://doi.org/10.1093/biolre/ioab088

Pr. Menon will present his work exploring the role of fetal cells-derived extracellular vesicles in feto-maternal communication. His winning article demonstrated that exosomes and microvesicles (MVs) under oxidative stress (OS) carry unique cargo and traffic through feto-maternal interface, which cause inflammation in uterine cells associated with parturition.