BWH Researchers Receive Women's Health Seed Grants
The HMS Center of Excellence in Women's Health announced funding for seven new research projects through the HMS Fund for Women's Health seed grants. The Fund promotes collaborative, inter-institutional research projects or educational program development in women's health and gender biology. It requires that a study's principal and co-principal investigator be from different participating Harvard-affiliated institutions or systems to develop research alliances across disciplines and institutional boundaries.
Five BWH researchers were awarded funding for projects in the 2005-2006 academic year.
Rosalind Wright, MD, MPH, is co-principal investigator of Experience of Violence in Childhood/Adolescence in Lesbian, Bisexual and Heterosexual Women in the Nurses' Health Study II.
Michelle Hirsch, MD, PhD, is co-principal investigator of Ovarian Cancer in Elderly Women: Protein Expression and a Retrospective Review of Clinical Features. Samuel Mok, PhD, is also researching this study.
Andrea Richardson, MD, PhD, is principal investigator of Mutation Detection for BRCA1-Associated Candidate Genes in Sporadic Basal-like Breast Cancers.
Shelley Tworoger, PhD, is principal investigator of Pilot Studies of Plasma Proteomic Profiling as a Tool for Studies of Ovarian Cancer Risk.