Rachel E Gross, The New York Times Published: 27 Apr 2021 03:04 PM BdST Updated: 27 Apr 2021 03:04 PM BdST Linda Griffith, a professor of biological and mechanical engineering at MIT, and its director of the Center for Gynepathology Research, at her home in Cambridge, Mass, Oct 19, 2020. Ilana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times In an undated image provided by Duncan Allison O’Boyle, Alex Brown, a postdoctoral researcher in tissue engineering, holds an isolated patient biopsy suspended in culture media. Duncan Allison O’Boyle via The New York Times Linda Griffith, a professor of biological and mechanical engineering at MIT, and its director of the Center for Gynepathology Research, holds images taken during a laparoscopic exam following one of her endometriosis surgeries, at her home in Cambridge, Mass, Oct. 19, 2020. “I don’t want to make endometriosis a women’s issue,” she said in 2014. “I want to make it