PRESS CONFERENCE
Announcing the Seckin Endometriosis Research Center for
Women’s Health at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL)
Thursday, May 1, 2025 10:00am
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Leemor Joshua Tor, PhD
Hi everyone. I'm limo Joshua Tor. I'm the Director of research here at CoBank Harbor Laboratory. Thank you so much, Alexis, for really bringing us through your journey. I can't think of anyone giving us such a vivid experience through what you have experienced, and I think these stories really underscore what we can do and propel what we can do moving forward. Thank you so much. Thank you, Dr. Seskin, for putting your trust in Coleman Harbor Laboratory. In the fantastic science that is done here, especially by Dr. Baz. We are an institution that is interested in fundamental understanding of life. We want to understand how life works. We want to understand when life doesn't work the way we expect it to work. And recently I reread a report that was commissioned by President Franklin Roosevelt of Dr. Vanover Bush. He was a director of scientific research and development.
In fact, our Bush Auditorium is named after him, and he wrote a report called Science the Endless Frontier. And there he told us that allowing scientists to doggedly pursue their curiosities and to doggedly pursue basic scientific principles would help propel human health, help human health, help us, our wellbeing, and our future. He understood that a partnership between universities, research institutions like Hot Spring Harbor philanthropy like Endo found, and the taxpayer would bring us to understandings and development that is unprecedented. And that in the last 80 years has really happened. Our understanding of biology, physics, chemistry, all of that in this amazing partnership has brought amazing advances in human health, wellbeing, economic development, our security. All of this was really shown by Vanover Bush that this could happen, and indeed it did happen. And this is what we do here at Cole Spring Harbor Laboratory. We pursue fundamental questions, and in this case, Dr.
Beas is going to continue to pursue understanding both from the genetic level and environmental impacts of on endometriosis. This would no doubt impact the ability to diagnose this condition, the ability to treat this condition, and hopefully even prevent this kind of conditions. This kind of fundamental research has underlied almost all of our advances in medicine and in technology, so we really are looking forward for the next time here to continue to develop this kind of research. Again, we are really grateful for all of you to be here on this wonderful day, beautiful weather, but also a beautiful day in opening this center for endometriosis research.
