INNOVATIONS IN WOMENS HEALTH RESEARCH

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• INNOVATIONS IN WOMENS HEALTH RESEARCH
• SEED GRANT PROGRAM
• The purpose of the Innovations in Womens Health
  Research Seed Grant Program is to foster new
  interdisciplinary research leading to significant
  advances in womens health.
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2010 Seed Grant Recipients
Title A polymorphic variant at survivin 129 is
a novel biomarker for breast cancer PI
Rachel Altura, MD, Pediatrics Collaborators
Carmen Marsit, PhD, Pathology Evgeny Yakirevich,
MD, Pathology
Title Susceptibility genes for polycystic
ovarian syndrome in Samoan and American Samoan
women PI Geralyn Lambert-Messerlian, PhD, FACB,
Pathology Collaborator Stephen McGarvey, PhD,
MPH, Community Health
Title Role of sleep and circadian rhythm
disruption in postpartum depression PI
Katherine Sharkey, MD, PhD, Medicine
Collaborator Teri Pearlstein, MD, Psychiatry
Human Behavior
Support for this Center of Excellence in Womens
Health grant initiative is from the Brown Medical
School Office of the Dean, Department of
Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, Department of Emergency Medicine,
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,
Department of Family Medicine, Department of
Surgery, Community Health and the Program in
Public Health.