Q&A: Ashley Abel Is On a Mission to End Endometriosis

March is Endometriosis Awareness Month. In 2022, Ashley Abel was working on her doctorate at Yale when she realized most of the studies she read involved mice. And the lab research she was doing on early embryos involved mice, too.No shade to lab mice, but they don’t menstruate. So, when considering endometrial conditions like endometriosis and all the ways menstrual cycles can affect the body, a mice model doesn’t exactly work.That gave Abel an idea. Fast forward to 2024 when Abel and co-founders Berna Sozen, Ph.D., and Kathy Potts, Ph.D., started Metri Bio — a biotechnology company pioneerin...

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