Maha Berrada

Blog Manager / Blog Writer / Editor

Maha's a sophomore majoring in bioinformatics, and is currently doing research and working at a healthcare office. In the future, she hopes to attend medical school and become a surgeon. In her free time, she loves to eat out at new places in the city, watch movies and check them off her bucket list, and read mystery novels! She also loves to play soccer (and has since she was 10), bake new recipes, and try out different breakfast ideas!

My Blogs:

Rewriting Inherited Disease: The Promise of Mitochondrial Donation

Writer: Maha Berrada Editor: Niharika Ojha Mitochondrial donation, often called “three-parent IVF”, is a new way of helping some women have healthy, genetically related children when they carry mitochondrial diseases (such as Leigh syndrome, MELAS syndrome, and many more). These diseases happen because of harmful mutations in tiny parts of every cell called mitochondria, which act like the cell’s power plants and have their own DNA. In normal reproduction, a baby gets most

Society of Bioethics and Medicine

A Disease Medicine Refuses to See: Endometriosis, Misogyny, and Misguided Research

Writer: Julia Lalla Editor: Maha Berrada Endometriosis affects an estimated 1 in 10 women globally and has debilitating symptoms, yet it remains one of the least understood and most underfunded chronic conditions in medicine [3]. However, what happens when the little research that is funded strays from the goal of finding a cure or proper diagnoses? Recent studies have emerged, including Culley et al.’s exploration of how endometriosis affects women’s male partners, and Verce

Society of Bioethics and Medicine

Maha Berrada

My Blogs:

Rewriting Inherited Disease: The Promise of Mitochondrial Donation

A Disease Medicine Refuses to See: Endometriosis, Misogyny, and Misguided Research

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