QB3 hosted its annual symposium Tuesday at Bakar Bio Labs, focused on ovarian health and aging and the broader impacts they have on women\u2019s health.<\/p>\n
Panelists shared research on ovarian aging, diseases and whole-body impacts. Panelists also discussed more clinically based developments in ovarian health and advancements in technology and therapies to address issues in women\u2019s health.<\/p>\n
QB3, or the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, hosts annual symposiums with the aim of sharing new research and projects emerging from academia and industries in California and beyond. It also helps to connect researchers and businesses working on similar issues, according to Katarina Klett, the director of research translation at QB3.<\/p>\n
Lise Barb\u00e9, the grants coordinator at QB3, said the symposium focuses on women\u2019s and ovarian health largely because it is underrepresented in research. She hopes that \u201ccollaborations will spark\u201d at the symposium and that gathering people from diverse backgrounds will encourage investments into women\u2019s health solutions.<\/p>\n
She said that after the symposium she helps host follow-up events to support researchers to further refine specific project ideas and apply for funding.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is really the beginning of the whole pipeline where we start having people interact (and) figure out what they want to do,\u201d Barb\u00e9 said.<\/p>\n
The panel topics included the impact ovaries has on lifespan and cognition, its impact on cardiovascular risk, AI tools being used to assess menopause symptoms in hospital charts and more.<\/p>\n
Emily Jacobs, one of the panelists and a current professor at UC Santa Barbara, began focusing on women\u2019s health as a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley. While doing research on estrogen in the brain, she realized that while more than 50,000 brain imaging articles have been published, less than 1% of them focused specifically on women\u2019s health factors.<\/p>\n
She said this represented both a \u201chistorical negligence\u201d and an \u201cincredible opportunity to make major discoveries.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the panel, Jacobs discussed how the ovaries have an impact on the brain and nervous system in women, and specifically how \u201cendocrine transitions\u201d including pregnancy, the menstrual cycle and menopause impact the brain throughout a woman\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
She shared research that found many of the changes that occur in women\u2019s brains during \u201cendocrine transitions\u201d can also leave them more vulnerable to adverse factors such as depression.<\/p>\n
Jacobs also said there is a lot of \u201clow-hanging fruit\u201d yet to be discovered about ovarian impacts on the body due to how understudied it is.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the best is yet to come,\u201d Jacobs said. \u201cI think that women\u2019s health has been having a moment. We have to turn it into a movement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QB3 hosted its annual symposium Tuesday at Bakar Bio Labs, focused on ovarian health and aging and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[117202,117206,117204,117205,143,145,144,117201,117203,149,28424],"class_list":["post-269038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bakar-bio-labs","tag-emily-jacobs","tag-katarina-klett","tag-lise-barb","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-qb3","tag-the-california-institute-for-quantitative-biosciences","tag-uc-berkeley","tag-uc-santa-barbara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}