Campion Blog
The Campion Fund 2023 Anniversary Gala
June 5th 2023
The Phyllis and Mark Leppert Foundation for Fertility Research, a public non-profit organization, doing business as The Campion Fund, celebrated its t...
US maternal mortality costs our economy
April 30th 2023
3,613,647 babies were born in the United States in 2020, a number that increased to 3,659,289 in 2021 (the latest year of available statistics). This...
Increased maternal mortality: we need to act
April 4th 2023
Maternal Mortality in the US is not declining. Why? Why are we as a people not upset about it? It is hard to believe that the maternal mortality in...
Introduction to the inaugural Phyllis C. Leppert Lecture
March 9th 2023
Mariana Wolfner, PhD, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York presented the inaugural Phyllis C Leppert Lec...
TCRB Awards 2023
March 6th 2023
At the recent meeting of the Triangle Consortium for Reproductive Biology held in Greenville, NC on February 25, 2023, The Campion Fund presented awar...
Continued Impact of the February 24-25, 2022 meeting on uterine fibroids in Africa
March 5th 2023
We have previously posted information on this website highlighting the discussions on uterine fibroids in Africa during the virtual meeting on Februar...
Transgenic Mice: How they help us understand human disease and development
February 13th 2023
“Why does NIH fund all these studies about mice?” My clinical colleague, recently appointed as an advisor to the federal institute asked me this ques...
Drug Develoment for Women's Reproductive and Overall Health
January 21st 2023
Development of new pharmaceutical drug treatments entails basic scientific discovery which is usually conducted in research intensive universities and...
Moving Forward to Prevent Preterm Birth: What We Need to Do Now that the FDA Advisory Committee Votes to Withdraw MAKENA
October 25th 2022
Written by Phyllis Leppert The Campion Fund stands for excellence in fundamental reproductive science. That this statement is vitally important hit...
US Maternal Mortality is Still High
October 3rd 2022
By Phyllis Leppert The August 2021 Campion Fund blog pointed out the high rates of maternal mortality in the United States. This rate was based on 2...