UCLA CTSI and Iris Cantor Women's Health Center announce 2024-2025 award recipients

Five projects will receive funding to advance exploration of sex and gender-based differences and women's health research

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By UCLA CTSI
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UCLA CTSI and the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center congratulate the five projects selected to receive the CTSI and Iris Cantor Women’s Health Center Awards. These awards aim to support research focused on understanding and promoting exploration of sex and gender-based differences and women’s health research.

Awarded researchers receive a one-year award worth up to $30,000, while fellows are awarded a one-year fellowship for $20,000. Awards were open to researchers and candidates at Westwood/Santa Monica Campus, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science.

Below are the 2024-2025 awardees and their funded project titles:

  1. Hilary Coller, PhD, Professor, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology and Biological Chemistry, "Histone H4 Lysine 20 Methylation in Reproductive Development, Fertility, and Transgenerational Inheritance"
  2. Jennifer Silvers, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychology, Bridget L Callahan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Psychology, Mitch Wong, MD, Professor, Medicine (General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research), "Education and Gender-Based Stress: Implications for Women’s Brain Health"
  3. Emily Hotez, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Medicine (General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research), Alice Kuo, MD, PhD, MBA, Associate Professor, Medicine (General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research), Pediatrics, and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, "Investigating the Role of Social Determinants of Health in Health Outcomes for Autistic Emerging Adult Females"
  4. Art Arnold, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Integrative Biology and Physiology, "Genetic Manipulation of Enhancer13 to Reverse Gonadal Type in Rats." 
  5. Marmar Vaseghi, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Pathogenesis of Stress Cardiomyopathy 

Visit the Iris Cantor RFA page for more information and to stay up to date on when the next application cycle is available. 

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