Thank you for attending the 2021 Magee-Womens Summit.
On November 16-18, 2021, scientific and clinical innovators convened, virtually and in person, to transform women’s health and reproductive biology in the 21st century. As the premier meeting in women’s health, the Magee-Womens Summit harnessed cross-disciplinary innovations and paved the way for a new generation of visionary research.
The 2021 Summit themes were Healthy Beginnings, Shaping Metabolism, and Healthy Mind Through Transitions. The three-day conference began with an afternoon dedicated to advocacy on November 16, then moved to two full days of research and clinically focused keynote talks and panel discussions on November 17 and 18.
Also included was the announcement of the Magee Prize, a $1 million prize for collaborative and transformative research within women’s and reproductive sciences.
The Magee Prize
The Magee Prize was established in 2018 as a global award designed to be a catalyst for transformational research in women’s health and reproductive biology. It funds a collaborative team whose research could improve lives around the world. Based on a transdisciplinary collaboration between a Magee-Womens Research Institute scientist, and researchers anywhere in the world, the prize provides funding support for 2-3 years.
On November 17, 2021, the prize was awarded to an international team led by Pamela Moalli, M.D., Ph.D., director of urogynecology and pelvic reconstruction surgery at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital and MWRI. The team is working to develop new biomaterials to repair tissue loss in women with compromised vaginal structure and function.The first prize was awarded at the inaugural summit in October, 2018 to an international team of scientists focused on ground-breaking research into the connection between placental abnormalities and congenital heart disease.
The Magee Prize is made possible through a gift from the Richard King Mellon Foundation.Â
The Issues
Accelerating discovery to ensure a healthy start
The biology of pregnancy is not fully understood. Pregnancy sessions will discuss the central impact of pregnancy and outcomes on lifetime health for the mother and the newborn.
What shapes metabolism and allows normal lifelong function?
Metabolism is a central force in regulating health and disease. This pillar will explore the basic underpinnings of metabolic regulation and disorders and pioneering new approaches for understanding and identifying relationships associated with wellness and disease.
What influences our cognitive-behavioral function and shapes our mind as we transition across the lifespan?
Sessions will showcase new views into exposures that influence our mind, alongside physiological and pathological approaches to enhancing the wellbeing of women at all ages.
Bringing the best scientific minds in medicine and research together in one place.
As world leaders in women’s health research, Magee is uniquely positioned to introduce a new approach on the global stage. As researchers, as physicians – and as mothers and daughters, fathers and sons – we at Magee are dedicated to transformative science in women’s health research for the good of all humankind.
Magee-Womens Research Institute is an interactive community of top-tier University of Pittsburgh researchers from diverse disciplines who work in partnership with academic clinicians at UPMC. Collectively with our colleagues in women’s health across the globe, our work will accelerate the pace of discovery and establish new benchmarks in every aspect of medical care around the world.
Magee-Womens Research Institute is committed to raising women's health research to the prominence it deserves by spearheading the creation of a global collaborative research ecosystem.
Magee-Womens Research Institute
Across cultures, women’s health shapes the family’s health. At Magee, we believe we can improve human life from its very beginning by focusing on women's
health. You can help create a healthier future by joining us in support of this very important mission.
Across cultures, women’s health shapes the family’s health. At Magee, we believe we can improve human life from its very beginning by focusing on women's health. You can help create a healthier future by joining us in support of this very important mission.