Dr. Yoel Sadovsky is the Executive and Scientific Director of Magee-Womens Research Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also the Elsie Hilliard Hillman Chair of Women's Health Research, Distinguished Professor of OBGYN, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Vice Chair of the Dept. of OBGYN, and Associate Dean of Women’s Health Research and Reproductive Sciences.

Dr. Sadovsky’s research integrates molecular, cellular and informatics tools to decipher placental development and adaption to injury, with a focus on trophoblastic microRNAs, which are packaged in extracellular vesicles and communicate among the fetal, placental, and maternal compartments.

Dr. Sadovsky received his MD from Hebrew University–Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem, followed by OBGYN residency at Washington University in St. Louis, and maternal-fetal medicine fellowship and postdoctoral research training at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Sadovsky is principal investigator of several NIH grants. His honors include membership in the Councils for NICHD, the March of Dimes, and the NIH’s Advisory Committee on Research on Women’s Health. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and the Association of American Physicians. He served as president of the Perinatal Research Society (2007-08) and the Society for Reproductive Investigation (2016-17). In 2013 he was awarded the Cozzarelli Prize in Biomedical Science from the National Academy of Sciences.