The WBI has recently issued a new request for proposals for fellowship awards, with a submission deadline of Sunday July 21, 2024. Further details and application instructions can be found here.
The WBI Research Fellowship Program is an important component of WBI. Each year, the WBI Fellowship Program selects two early-career researchers at the Brigham who wish to explore how biological sex may affect neurologic or psychiatric disorders, and related conditions of the nervous system, as well as how female-specific life transitions may influence brain health. The Program enables selected fellows to pursue new research directions and to develop their careers as independent investigators.
Each WBI Research Fellow shall receive up to $50,000 per annum for two years. This program is geared toward junior investigators at the Brigham. Postdoctoral researchers, clinical fellows, instructors, and assistant professors within 3 years of appointment, with support from their mentors, are eligible to submit an application. Proposals are reviewed by a cross departmental committee of Brigham faculty members. Please refer to our most recent RFA for further details of the process and selection criteria.
To date, the WBI Fellowship Selection Committee has selected the following investigators to join the WBI Research Fellowship Program. Congratulations to the awardees!
Department of Psychiatry
Fellowship Project: Predicting clinical and functional outcomes in postmenopausal women with major depression.
Division of Endocrinology
Fellowship Project: A novel female-specific hypothalamic pathway underlying the metabolic regulation of ovulation.
BWH Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases
Fellowship Project: Analysis of Sex Differences in CNS Inflammation by scRNA-seq
(Joint project with Michael Wheeler)
Department of Medicine/Women’s Health
Fellowship Project: Metabolomic Response to Hormone Therapy and Ischemic Stroke in Postmenopausal Women
BWH Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases
Fellowship Project: Analysis of Sex Differences in CNS Inflammation by scRNA-seq
(Joint project with Iain Clark)
BWH Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Disease
Fellowship Project: Sex-dependent role of the microbiota in Alzheimer’s diseases
BWH Department of Neurosurgery
Fellowship Project: Risk factors for aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage in women