WVU researchers receive recognition for published reproductive endocrine research

Two researchers in the West Virginia University School of Medicine’s Department of Physiology and Pharmacology published a paper with the Endocrine Society, an international medical organization in the field of endocrinology and metabolism that connects researchers with clinicians.

Stanley Hileman, Ph.D., and Robert Goodman, Ph.D., both professors in the School of Medicine, received notice that their research was one of the top 10 percent of articles published in the journal in 2018 to 2019, as assessed by rate of citation.

Their paper, “Evidence that dynorphin acts upon KNDy and GnRH neurons during GnRH pulse termination in the ewe” seeks to provide a better picture of how the human brain controls reproduction and how reproductive issues like mistimed puberty onset or polycystic ovarian syndrome relate to how the brain produces a peptide, gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH).

Hileman and Goodman joined peers from the University of Mississippi in the study and published paper.