Yuebo Yang has been selected to receive the Endocrine Society’s 2018 Summer Research Fellowship Award

Congratulations to Yuebo Yang, a student working with Dr. Jerilynn Prior, who has been selected to receive the Endocrine Society’s 2018 Summer Research Fellowship Award.

This summer Yuebo will be working with Dr. Prior and the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research. His research project will use RCT data to analyze the changes in serum sclerostin over 12 weeks during which healthy menopausal women were randomized to blinded treatment with oral micronized progesterone or identical placebo. Sclerostin, secreted by osteocytes (bone-buried osteoblasts) suppresses bone formation while progesterone acts through the osteoblast receptor to stimulate bone formation. It is currently known that estrogen suppresses sclerostin, but there are no data about progesterone’s potential effect.

The award will provide a stipend for Yuebo’s research as well as funding to present the results of his work at the Annual Endocrine Society meeting in New Orleans next March.

The Women’s Health Research Institute would like to acknowledge that we are uninvited guests on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lo, and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-waututh) Nations.

As a provincial research institute committed to improving the health outcomes of women, including those across the 2SLGBTQIA+ spectrum, we recognize our responsibility in the collective effort towards establishing culturally safe health care systems and services that address health inequities among Indigenous peoples, especially Indigenous women, girls, and Two-spirit peoples.

We encourage all people involved in research to read both the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action and the In Plain Sight Report, and reflect on ways we can incorporate the recommendations into our work. As we gather in spaces together, we encourage you to reflect on your positionality on these lands and your personal commitments to reconciliation.

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