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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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

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

Industry Partner(s): Synthera Health

Grant Awarded:  $805,660

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

Industry Partner(s): BostonGene

Grant Awarded:  $750,000

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

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

Industry Partners: PathAI

Grant Awarded: $748,075

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

Industry Partners: Cygnal

Grant Awarded: $665,000

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

Awardee (PI, Institution): Michael Busa, UMass Amherst
Industry Partner(s): Embr Labs

Grant Awarded: $747,255

Awardee (PI, Institution): Manos Gkikas, Hengyong Yu, UMass Lowell; Mary Rusckowski, UMass Medical School
Industry Partner(s): Bowing Medical Technologies

Grant Awarded: $591,000

Awardee (PI, Institution): Gopal VijayaraghavanUMass Medical
Industry Partner(s): Deep Health

Grant Awarded: $750,000

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

Industry Partner(s): Iomics Intelligent Analytics

Grant Awarded: $750,000

Connect with us to learn more

If you have questions regarding the application process, e-mail WomensHealth@masslifesciences.com.

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