Research Fellowship Program
The WBI Research Fellowship Program is an important component of WBI. Each year, for three years, the WBI Fellowship Program is designed to select two early-career neuroscientists 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 is structured to enable selected fellows to pursue new ideas not covered by their mentor’s laboratory and to develop their careers as independent investigators.
On March 2, 2019, the Women’s Brain Initiative issued its second Fellowship Program Request for Proposal. Applications must be received no later than May 5, 2019.
See RFP and required WBI Cover Sheet: Coversheet & RFP
Each selected WBI Research Fellow shall receive $50,000 per annum for two years. The WBI Research Fellowship RFP will be repeated in 2020. This Program is geared toward junior investigators. Postdoctoral research fellows, clinical fellows, Instructors, and Assistant Professors (within 3 years of Assistant Professor appointment) at the Brigham, with support from their mentors, are eligible to submit an application.
In response to the first RFP issued by the Program last year, the WBI Fellowship Selection Committee announced in June 2018 that the following two investigators were selected to join the WBI Research Fellowship Program. Congratulations to the awardees!
Laura Cox, PhD
BWH Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Disease
Fellowship Project: Sex-dependent role of the microbiota in Alzheimer’s diseases
Rosalind Lai, MD
BWH Department of Neurosurgery
Fellowship Project: Risk factors for aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage in women