Virumbrales-Muñoz Research Team

The Society for Reproductive Investigation hosted the 73rd annual scientific meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico March 24-28, 2026. Faculty and researchers from the UW Department of Ob-Gyn Division of Reproductive Sciences shared their work at the conference. Just some of their exciting accomplishments: Oral Abstracts: Placenta Session - Transcriptional Landscape of the Macaque... more

Congratulations to Ellinore Letts, an undergraduate student in the Virumbrales-Muñoz Lab, who was selected for a Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship! Ellinore is currently a junior majoring in Biomedical Engineering. The Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship supports undergraduates to complete an independent research project under the mentorship ... more

Michael Berube, DVM, PhD, postdoctoral research associate in the Barroilhet and Virumbrales-Muñoz Labs, received a travel award at the 2026 SMPH Collaborate poster session! The February 6, 2026 SMPH Collaborate event was focused on postdoctoral research and accomplishments. This is the second year in a row that a postdoctoral researcher from the Department of Ob-Gyn received... more

Congratulations to María Virumbrales-Muñoz, PhD, MS, assistant professor in the Division of Reproductive Sciences, who is one of just three scholars selected for the 2025-27 cohort of the UW Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) program! Virumbrales-Muñoz began the two-year appointment on November 1, 2025. The BIRCWH award will support Virumb... more

Congratulations to Manish Patankar, PhD, director of the Division of Reproductive Sciences, who received a 2026 Research and Education grant from the UnityPoint Health Meriter Foundation! The grant will fund the project “Targeting metabolic vulnerabilities: a non-hormonal approach for the treatment of the chronic reproductive disorder, endometriosis.” Patankar and the resear... more