Section on Implantation and Oocyte Physiology

Head: Alan H. Decherney

Through basic and translational research, we seek (1) to identify critical cellular and molecular events required for successful implantation in pregnancy and (2) to understand the relationships between such events and pathologies of early pregnancy. Therefore, our objective is to understand the biology of the developing blastocyst, which requires the differentiation of its outer epithelium, the trophectoderm, into invasive trophoblast cells and the maintenance of a cohort of pluripotent embryonic stem cells.

Resources

• Employee Listing
• E-Mail the Lab: decherna@mail.nih.gov