First Look Awardees
The First Look Awards program, a collaboration between the MLSC and the Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, supports exploratory projects to begin developing translatable solutions for women’s health and furthering our understanding of gender biology.
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center aims to support and incentivize translational project teams developing research towards the understanding of conditions and development of solutions in this area of need.
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2023 First Look Awardees
The Center awarded five projects totaling $250,000.
Project Title: Targeting AMHR2 in cancer-associated mesothelial cells as a treatment for ovarian cancer
Grant Awarded: $50,000
Project Title: Mapping the mediators of inflammation across the human menstrual cycle
Awardee (PIs, Institution): Dr. Juan Gnecco, Tufts University
Grant Awarded: $50,000
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Project Title: Human Stem Cell-Derived Sensory Neurons for Modeling Female Reproductive Tract Pain
Project Title: Assessing genetic risk for peripartum cardiomyopathy
Project Title: Association of Menopausal state, Sex, and Incident CVD events with HDL cholesterol, Particle Subfractions, and Function
2022 First Look Awardees
The Center awarded $150,000 in grant funding to support three projects.
Project Title: A human trophoblast-derived placental model for studying the impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on early pregnancy
Awardee (PIs, Institution): Ching-Wen Chang, UMass Chan Medical School
Project Title: A new model for the study of endometriosis
Awardee (PIs, Institution): Kara McKinley, Harvard University
Project Title: Sex Differences in the Pathophysiology of Aortic Diseases
2021 First Look Awardees
The MLSC awarded $50,000 to one project.
Project Title: E2-PATH assay for assessment of breast cancer risk and treatment
Awardee (PIs, Institution): Sallie Schneider, PhD, Baystate Medical Center
