Most women get uterine fibroids. This researcher wants to know why

Painful experience has taught Erika Moore that benign doesn’t always mean harmless. Moore, a biomedical engineer at the University of Maryland in College Park, lives with noncancerous tumors in the uterus called uterine fibroids. “That’s what drew me in to wanting to understand these diseases and try to make not only my life better, but the lives of my loved ones better too,” she says.