The UIC National Center of Excellence in Women's Health (CoE) and the UIC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology received the NIH Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) beginning in September of 2007. This K12 grant from the National Institutes of Health provides funding for junior faculty to pursue research interests in women's health.
UIC BIRCWH NEWS AND EVENTS
NEW! Congratulations to BIRCWH Scholar Joanna Burdette!
After a competitive application process, Dr. Burdette received funding from the Cancer Center Pilot Grant Program for her project, "Transformation of Ovarian Epithelium in Three Dimensions." For more information, please visit the Cancer Center website.
NEW! Information from the BIRCWH Interdisciplinary Seminar on Enhancing Peer Review at NIH!
This seminar was held on April 3, 2009 at the College of Nursing. We were honored to have Dr. Cheryl Kitt, Deputy Director of the Center for Scientific Review, join us to discuss the new NIH review process.
An issue came up during Dr. Cheryl Kitt's presentation about New/Early Stage Investigator status and grants with Multiple PIs, specifically, whether it was beneficial to New/Early Stage Investigators to partner with more senior researchers as Principal Investigators. If a grant uses the Multiple Principal Investigator model, all PIs have to be New/Early Stage Investigators to be considered as an ESI submission. Researchers who have previously competed successfully as PI for a significant independent NIH research grant (e.g. R01) are excluded from consideration as a New Investigator, but may be named as Key Research Personnel in the application. You can read more FAQs about the New/Early Stage Investigator status here. For more information about Multiple Principal Investigators, please look here.
For information from Dr. Cheryl Kitt's presentation, please visit our calendar.
NEW! Congratulations to BIRCWH Scholar Colleen Corte, PhD, Alicia Matthews, PhD, Lisa Kuhns, PhD and Rob Garofalo, MD!
Researchers from UIC and the Howard Brown Health Center were awarded a seed grant from UIC's LGBT Research Grant Program. The grant is titled, "Self-Identities and Risk Behaviors in LGBT Adolescents: A Feasibility Study." The researchers will use a social cognitive model to investigate the relationships between self-identities and risk behaviors in LGBT adolescents.
UIC BIRCWH Scholar Awarded NIH K23 Grant
Bryna Harwood, MD, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, has been awarded K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research funding from the National Institutes of Health for her research titled "Contraceptive Decision-Making: Women's Preferences for IUD-related Health States."
Current BIRCWH Scholars
Joanna Burdette, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy
Colleen Corte, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health, Mental Health and Administrative Nursing, College of Nursing
Patricia Hershberger, PhD, Assistant Professor in the
Department of Women, Children, and Family Health Science, College of Nursing
Hyunyoung Jeong, PharmD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Pharmacy Practice and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, UIC College of Pharmacy