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In a campus-wide initiative to enhance and accelerate interdisciplinary research in women's health, SUNY Downstate is pleased to announce a new training program in Women’s Health Related Research: from Molecules to Therapy. This is made possible by a major interdisciplinary grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under its program Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH). This program, developed by the NIH's Office of Research on Womenís Health (ORWH) is co-sponsored by ORWH and 10 Offices and Institutes of the NIH. The Downstate grant is administered by the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development. Downstate’s BIRCWH award, the only such grant in New York State, will be administered through the Office of the President. The Program Director is Dr. Alan Gintzler. The goal of the BIRCWH initiative is to promote research and the transfer of research findings to clinical care that will benefit the health of women by pairing junior researchers with one or more senior investigators working in various targeted areas relevant to women’s health. The grant also promotes research into sex and gender differences in health and disease. The ideal physician scholar would be one who has been involved in clinical and/or basic science research during his/her medical/residency training, which has just been completed. The ideal Ph.D. scholar is one who has his/her degree in neuroscience/biochemistry/molecular biology and has completed at least three years of postdoctoral training. Scholars cannot have more than six years of research training experience beyond their last degree but there is no limit on time elapsed since completion of training to allow opportunities for career re-entry The selected mentors and their associates are drawn from seven different basic science and clinical departments at SUNY Downstate as well as at our partner institutions, the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health and Kings County Hospital Center. Mentoring research areas include: (1) Pain sensitivity and Analgesic Responsiveness, (2) Diabetes in Women, (3) Neuronal Excitability, with a focus on epilepsy, (4) Early Detection of Breast Cancer Using Novel Detection Methods, (5) Natural Disease Progression/Diagnosis & Treatment (focus on AIDS), and (6) Health Care Disparities and Well-being in Women. Those interested in becoming BIRCWH scholars should contact Dr. Alan Gintzler (718-270-2129; alan.gintzler@downstate.edu) or Dr. Judie LaRosa (718-270-3204; judie.larosa@downstate.edu)
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