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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2016 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2002 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Linda C. Giudice is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with a particular emphasis on Reproductive Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Immunology. Other areas of study include Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, as well as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their work encompasses a variety of topics, with notable coverage of Endometriosis Research and Treatment, Reproductive System and Pregnancy, Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments, and Uterine Myomas and Treatments. Additionally, they investigate Climate Change and Health Impacts, Air Quality and Health Impacts, and Ovarian function and disorders.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with them include Juan C. Irwin, Marina Sirota, Sahar Houshdaran, Tomiko Oskotsky, and Júlia Vallvé-Juanico.

Publications by Linda C. Giudice have frequently appeared in several specific venues, including Fertility and Sterility, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Human Reproduction, Seminars in Reproductive Medicine, and the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics.

Selected recent papers by Linda C. Giudice and close collaborators include:

  • Climate change, women's health, and the role of obstetricians and gynecologists in leadership, 2021, International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
  • Endometrial function in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a comprehensive review, 2020, Human Reproduction Update
  • Adenomyosis: Mechanisms and Pathogenesis, 2020, Seminars in Reproductive Medicine
  • Randomized Trial of a Vaccine Regimen to Prevent Chronic HCV Infection, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Declining global fertility rates and the implications for family planning and family building: an IFFS consensus document based on a narrative review of the literature, 2023, Human Reproduction Update

They have been recognized with several honors, including being named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2016 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011. Additionally, they have been a member of the National Academy of Medicine since 2002 and hold membership in the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement

    Evanthia Diamanti-Kandarakis;Jean Pierre Bourguignon;Linda C. Giudice;Russ Hauser

  • CLINICAL PRACTICE. ENDOMETRIOSIS

    Linda C Giudice

  • Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of endometriosis

    Richard O. Burney;Linda C. Giudice

  • Clomiphene, Metformin, or Both for Infertility in the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

    Richard S. Legro;Huiman X. Barnhart;William D. Schlaff;Bruce R. Carr

  • The insulin-related ovarian regulatory system in health and disease.

    Leonid Poretsky;Nicholas A. Cataldo;Zev Rosenwaks;Linda C. Giudice

  • Global Gene Profiling in Human Endometrium during the Window of Implantation

    L. C. Kao;S. Tulac;S. Lobo;B. Imani

  • Expression Profiling of Endometrium from Women with Endometriosis Reveals Candidate Genes for Disease-Based Implantation Failure and Infertility

    L. C. Kao;A. Germeyer;S. Tulac;S. Lobo

  • Gene Expression Analysis of Endometrium Reveals Progesterone Resistance and Candidate Susceptibility Genes in Women with Endometriosis

    Richard O. Burney;Said Talbi;Amy E. Hamilton;Kim Chi Vo

  • Insulin-like growth factors and ovarian follicular development.

    Linda C. Giudice

  • Molecular Phenotyping of Human Endometrium Distinguishes Menstrual Cycle Phases and Underlying Biological Processes in Normo-Ovulatory Women

    S Talbi;A E Hamilton;K C Vo;S Tulac

  • Telomerase activity in human development is regulated by human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) transcription and by alternate splicing of hTERT transcripts

    Gary A. Ulaner;Ji-Fan Hu;Thanh H. Vu;Linda C. Giudice

  • Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is an insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3 protease found in seminal plasma.

    Pinchas Cohen;Howard C.B. Graves;Donna M. Peehl;Mehdi Kamarei

  • The science behind 25 years of ovarian stimulation for in vitro fertilization.

    Nick S. Macklon;Richard L. Stouffer;Linda C. Giudice;Bart C. J. M. Fauser

  • Insulin-like Growth Factor Binding Protein-1: Recent Findings and New Directions

    Phillip D.K. Lee;Linda C. Giudice;Cheryl A. Conover;David R. Powell

  • World Endometriosis Society consensus on the classification of endometriosis

    Neil P. Johnson;Lone Hummelshoj;G. David Adamson;Jörg Keckstein

  • Clinical diagnosis of endometriosis: a call to action.

    Sanjay K. Agarwal;Charles Chapron;Linda C. Giudice;Marc R. Laufer

  • Female reproductive disorders: the roles of endocrine-disrupting compounds and developmental timing.

    D. Andrew Crain;Sarah J. Janssen;Thea M. Edwards;Jerrold Heindel

  • Patterns of matrix metalloproteinase expression in cycling endometrium imply differential functions and regulation by steroid hormones.

    W H Rodgers;L M Matrisian;L C Giudice;B Dsupin

  • Insulin-like growth factor binding proteins in maternal serum throughout gestation and in the puerperium: effects of a pregnancy-associated serum protease activity.

    Linda C. Giudice;Eleanor M. Farrell;Hung Pham;George Lamson

  • Insulin-like growth factors and their binding proteins in the term and preterm human fetus and neonate with normal and extremes of intrauterine growth

    Linda C. Giudice;F. de Zegher;S. E. Gargosky;B. A. Dsupin

Frequent Co-Authors

Hugh S. Taylor
Hugh S. Taylor Yale University
Bruce A. Lessey
Bruce A. Lessey Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Michael Toft Overgaard
Michael Toft Overgaard Aalborg University
John D. Aplin
John D. Aplin University of Manchester
Ron G. Rosenfeld
Ron G. Rosenfeld Oregon Health & Science University
Richard S. Legro
Richard S. Legro Pennsylvania State University
Bruce R. Carr
Bruce R. Carr The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Tracey J. Woodruff
Tracey J. Woodruff Stanford University
Michael P. Diamond
Michael P. Diamond Augusta University
Evan R. Myers
Evan R. Myers Duke University

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