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Women's health winners announced

 

Kathleen Brady, M.D., Ph.D., recently received awards on behalf of MUSC for her work in women's health.

MUSC is one of 11 new or continuing Specialized Centers of Research (SCOR) on Sex Differences award winners. Brady, director of the center, oversees coordination of individual projects involving the research theme of "sex and gender differences in addictions and stress response."

SCOR were selected for having at least "three highly integrated, synergistic research projects that explore an important issue related to sex/gender health differences through interdisciplinary approaches," according to the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women's Health.

Potential funding for the 11 SCOR will total more than $11 million per year for five years.

"This renewal will fund years 11 to 15 of our SCOR Center's operation. We are pleased that NIH has recognized the excellence of the efforts by MUSC researchers by continuing to fund our research and training initiatives in women's health," she said.

Brady was also the principal investigator for MUSC receiving a 2012 Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) award. The National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) and other co-sponsors awarded nearly $6 million to 14 BIRCWH programs.

The goal of the BIRCWH program is to "bring scholars' advanced training with independent research in areas that cut across scientific disciplines and fields in women's health including basic, clinical and translational research," a news release from the Office of Research on Women's Health stated.

Applications are being accepted for the program and are due by Jan. 1, 2013. Visit www.musc.edu/bircwh.

Women's Health Research Day
Investigators are invited to submit abstracts pertaining to either sex/gender differences or disorders/treatments as they uniquely relate to women. Abstracts are due by noon, Jan. 7. The 2013 Women's Health Research Day will be held April 18, 2013 at the Institute of Psychiatry. Visit www.musc.edu/wrc for more information.

Friday, Nov. 2, 2012

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