Women’s Brain Initiative

Research Fellowship Program

20170112, Thursday, January 12, 2017, Boston, MA, USA, Brigham and Women's Hospital Institute for the Neurosciences launch imagery withing The Building for Transformative Medicine on Thursday January 12, 2017. Background: "The BWH Institute for the Neurosciences is at the heart of a new hospital-wide approach to understanding and helping all patients with nervous system disorders." - background

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We are pleased to announce the recipients of our 2020 Women’s Brain Initiative Fellowship awards: Jessica Lipschitz, PhD (Dept of Psychiatry) and Rajae Talbi, PhD (Division of Endocrinology). See the announcement for further details.

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!