Pravin Goud, M.D., Ph.D., a fellow in the WSU Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology Division of Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility, was recently awarded a $30,000 competitive grant by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine-Ortho Women's Health. The grant, "Oocyte Maturation and aging in Endometriosis," will investigate the role of free radicals in the causation of oocyte abnormalities in endometriosis.

Dr. Goud works in close collaboration with Michael Diamond, M.D.; Bernard Gonik, M.D.; Anuradha Goud, Ph.D.; and Husam Abu-Soud, Ph.D. Their research on the role of nitric oxide in oocyte aging has previously featured in the journal Biochemistry and has received national and international awards, including the Gordon Research Conference Award in 2005.