Meet the Women's Health Collaboration Program Award Recipients

The Women’s Health Collaboration Program Past Awardees

The Women’s Health Collaboration program supports collaborative projects that aim to improve the discovery, technical innovation, and/or analysis of datasets to answer pressing life science questions around women’s health.

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academic-industry translational research collaborations

non-profit and industry partners trained 13 early-career scientists

$ 0 M

in MLSC investments

$ 0 M

in leveraged academic and industry funding to accelerate women’s health research

$ 0 M

follow-on funding, 27 publications, 1 patent, and 1 related FDA drug approval

2023 Past Awardees

The Center awarded $2.7 million to support four projects.

Project Title: Evaluation of novel biomarkers for the early detection of ovarian and breast cancer

Awardee (PIs, Institution): Dr. Sallie Schneider, Dr. Tashanna Myers, Dr. Kelly Gregory, PhD, Baystate Medical Center

Industry Partner(s): AOA Dx

Grant Awarded: $458,259

Project Title: Acquisition of an Automated Blood Analyzer System to Enable Evaluation of a Digital Health Program and Assay Development Support at a CLIA Research Laboratory

Awardee (PIs, Institution): Dr. Catherine Klapperich, Boston University

Industry Partner(s): Synthera Health

Grant Awarded: $805,660

Project Title: Optimizing the treatment in high-risk hormone receptor positive breast cancer through a multi-omic integrative holistic approach

Awardee (PIs, Institution): Dr. Rinath Jeselsohn, Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Industry Partner(s): BostonGene

Grant Awarded: $750,000

Project Title: Improving selectivity of an MeCP2 exon-editor for Rett Syndrome

Awardee (PIs, Institution): Dr. Silvi Rouskin, Harvard Medical School

Industry Partner(s): Ascidian Therapeutics

Grant Awarded: $750,000

2022 Past Awardee

The Center awarded $748,114 to one project.

Project Title: The multiomic multiple sclerosis brain

Awardee (PIs, Institution): Tanuja Chitnis, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Industry Partner(s): Genentech

Grant Awarded: $748,114

2021 Past Awardees

The MLSC awarded four projects.

Project Title: Pathfinder: Studying lymphocyte repertoire dynamics during pregnancy in autoimmune sufferers

Awardee (PIs, Institution): Debora Marks, Harvard Medical School

Industry Partners: JURA Bio

Grant Awarded: $750,000

Project Title: Leveraging digital pathology to identify and cure high risk breast cancer

Awardee (PIs, Institution): Elizabeth Mittendorf, MD, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Industry Partners: PathAI

Grant Awarded: $748,075

Project Title: Nerve-immune Interactions as A Target of Endometriosis and Adenomyosis therapies

Awardee (PIs, Institution): Linda Griffith PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Industry Partners: Cygnal

Grant Awarded: $665,000

Project Title: Elucidating sex differences in network aberrations in depression while building equitable infrastructure for research

Awardee (PIs, Institution): Jamie Maguire, Tufts University

Industry Partners: Sage Therapeutics

Grant Awarded: $251,548

2020 Past Awardees

The MLSC provided $4.1 million in funding to five cross-sector project teams.

Project Title: The Lactation Lab: Improving the health of two generations by optimizing breastfeeding

Awardee (PI, Institution): Sarbattama Sen, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Camilia Martin, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Industry Partner(s): Metabolon

Grant Awarded: $268,743

Project Title: Artificial Intelligence for Menopause Symptoms (AIMS)

Awardee (PI, Institution): Michael Busa, UMass Amherst

Industry Partner(s): Embr Labs

Grant Awarded: $747,255

Project Title: Breast Cancer Detection Empowered by Contrast Agents, Spectral CT, and Machine Learning

Awardee (PI, Institution): Manos Gkikas, Hengyong Yu, UMass Lowell; Mary Rusckowski, UMass Medical School

Industry Partner(s): Bowing Medical Technologies

Grant Awarded: $591,000

Project Title: Improving Breast Cancer Diagnosis Using Artificial Intelligence in Mammography Screenings

Awardee (PI, Institution): Gopal Vijayaraghavan, UMass Medical

Industry Partner(s): Deep Health

Grant Awarded: $750,000

Project Title: Predictive modeling to create “bioprofiles”: for use in personalized medicine in women’s health

Awardee (PI, Institution): Dr. Kristen Porter, PhD, Westfield State University

Industry Partner(s): Iomics Intelligent Analytics

Grant Awarded: $750,000

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Meet the Women's Health Collaboration Program Award Recipients

The Women’s Health Collaboration Program Past Awardees

academic-industry translational research collaborations

non-profit and industry partners trained 13 early-career scientists

in MLSC investments

in leveraged academic and industry funding to accelerate women’s health research

follow-on funding, 27 publications, 1 patent, and 1 related FDA drug approval

2023 Past Awardees

2022 Past Awardee

2021 Past Awardees

2020 Past Awardees

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