Nury Steuerwald, Ph.D.
is a senior member of the Galileo research team and current serves as a
senior researcher for Reprogenetics and an Adjunct Research Scientist at the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Dr. Steuerwald began her career in mathematics
and computer science, and went on to pursue advanced studies in reproductive
biology. Dr. Steuerwald
received a Ph.D., summa cum laude, from Florida International University in
Miami in 1999. She completed her dissertation research in the laboratory of
Drs. Jacques Cohen and Santiago Munné, with whom she collaborated to
conduct quantitative expression analysis in single oocytes with particular
emphasis on cell cycle regulation and checkpoint gene expression during
meiosis. Dr.
Steuerwald has been affiliated with several reproductive technology
laboratories, and made an
invaluable contribution to the formation of the Charlotte Genomics
Consortium. She worked
tirelessly to obtain DNA microarray technology that would enable her team to
identify clinically useful reproductive markers by providing a global
genetic perspective of reproductive tissues.
Ultimately, they may be able to determine which reproductive markers
are critical indicators of prognosis and the differing factors between good
and poor responders of follicular stimulation.
Dr. Steuerwald was an active participant in the planning committee
that prepared the successful grant applications to establish the microarray
facility and she remains an active member of the Executive Committee that
provides guidance and oversight to its operations.
Given her background in computer science and biology, Dr. Steuerwald
is particularly interested in research involving the application of
bioinformatics.
Dr. Steuerwald and her
colleagues at UNC are currently collaborating with scientists at the
Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science at Saint Barnabas to examine
gene expression during oogenesis and embryogenesis, and to conduct
experiments intended to elucidate the integrated mechanisms regulated by
nitric oxide in early embryonic development.
