ReproTech, Menopause, and Reproductive Preservation
Scientific events online and in-person for women's health around the world 🪩
In conversation with IVG Pioneer Dr. Paula Amato and Author Marina Gerner
What if eggs could be created from skin cells? What if we could solve infertility?
Join us for an exclusive conversation with Dr. Paula Amato, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the OHSU School of Medicine and immediate past-president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, hosted by Marina Gerner, award-winning financial journalist, columnist, and author of “The Vagina Business” to explore in vitro gametogenesis (IVG) - one of the next frontiers in ReproTech.
📆 Date: Thursday, November 20, 2025
⏰ Time: 9:00 PM PT | 12:00 PM ET | 6:00 PM CET
📍 Location: Online webinar
We’ll dive into:
What “in vitro gametogenesis” (IVG) is
Her team’s recent paper and what the latest findings reveal
The science of IVG: where we are today and what still needs to be achieved
The ethical and societal implications of creating eggs and sperm from somatic cells
What the future of fertility could look like in the next decade
There will be an opportunity for an audience Q&A at the end.
This is a rare chance to meet the scientist at the forefront of shaping reproductive medicine and the future of fertility.
🇬🇧 AthenaDAO Sponsors Clinical Frontiers in Fertility Preservation 2025
AthenaDAO is proud to sponsor the upcoming Clinical Frontiers in Fertility Preservation 2025, a two-day conference focused on the latest clinical and scientific developments in fertility preservation.
Organized by the British Fertility Society’s Fertility Preservation Special Interest Group, the meeting will convene experts across reproductive medicine, oncology, endocrinology, genetics, and surgery to discuss evidence-based advances and practical approaches in patient care.
📅 Date: November 27–28, 2025
📍 Location: Royal College of Physicians, London
Topics include:
Chemoprotection and the ovarian microenvironment
The clinical validity of artificial gametes
Fertility preservation in oncology and non-malignant conditions
Practical aspects of ovarian and testicular tissue cryopreservation
Post-treatment outcomes and reproductive planning
Menopause Later
Earlier this month, AthenaDAO sponsored and co-designed the Women’s Longevity Track at the Agentic AI Against Aging Hackathon in San Francisco, hosted by HackAging.AI.
A prize and challenge proposed by menopause prediction startup LifeAhead - produced one standout project, Menopause Later, which developed a fully autonomous AI literature analysis system that modelled the economic and health impact of delaying menopause by five years.
The system autonomously queried PubMed, analyzed 1,655 meta-analyses, and extracted 584 risk metrics using a LangGraph state machine in Python.
It mapped risk changes across diseases such as CVD, dementia, diabetes, and cancers, and estimated how delaying menopause could affect national healthcare costs and productivity.
They created a scalable framework that connects reproductive longevity research to real-world economic value.
About the team:
Mark Kagach is an alignment and longevity researcher passionate about building trustworthy, decade-long collaborations to advance human progress. He has co-authored handbooks simplifying the works of physicist David Deutsch both personally endorsed by Deutsch and is completing a study on longevity funding with Alexey Strygin, surveying over 135 scientists in the field.
Elias Schlie is an AI student and software engineer. His current projects range from building software for BCIs, to developing tools to support scientific research, to using AI agents for automations. Alongside his studies, he works as a software engineer for a biotech startup called Griffin Labs, developing AI agents for creating self-updating causal graphs reflecting peer-reviewed human research.
🗞️ AthenaDAO Alumni News: Femtech Spain 🇪🇸
Lucia Orozco Lopez, an AthenaDAO community member and a finalist for our Entrepreneur-In-Residence Pitch competitors, launched Femtech Spain this year with the goal of connecting and strengthening the women’s health innovation ecosystem across the country.
Femtech Spain is bringing together founders, investors, researchers, and healthcare professionals to accelerate innovation in FemTech and make women’s health a national priority.
You can become a member in this link - you don’t need to be an investor or a founder, everybody is welcome!
Follow them on LinkedIn and Substack to stay up to date with the latest in the industry.
Femtech Spain will officially launch on Wednesday December 3rd during Health Tech Forward in Barcelona. Sign up to attend!
Congratulations to Lucia and we are thrilled that another one of AthenaDAO’s alumni is continuing her work in the field of women’s health!
🇮🇪 Women’s Health & Longevity in Dublin
AthenaDAO’s Founder is speaking at Women’s Health & Longevity, a free, science-led public event in Dublin on Saturday November 29th. Hear talks from clinicians and researchers, practical takeaways, short discussions.
Register for free: https://lu.ma/WomensNov29