ORWH’s Associate Director for Careers, Xenia Tigno, Ph.D., is committed to ensuring that women are supported in science-related careers. Under Dr. Tigno’s leadership, ORWH has launched a variety of funding opportunities that seek to address the points in a scientist’s career that Dr. Tigno refers to as “precipices where women usually fall off.”
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The most recent edition of Women’s Health In Focus at NIH explores technology and innovation in women's health research. NIH’s major investments over the past decades have spurred advancements for in vitro bioengineering tools that enable the use of human cells and tissues for preclinical testing. These advances have the potential to expedite the development, testing, and clinical use of novel therapeutics.
December 6, 2024
NIH ORWH is offering two Science Policy Scholar Travel Awards to support the development of two junior investigators who are focused on women’s health or sex and gender differences and are also interested in research policy.
Chyren Hunter, Ph.D., ORWH Associate Director of Basic and Translational Therapies, and Regine Douthard, M.D., M.P.H., ORWH Senior Medical Officer, represented NIH in a meeting with the Japan Science and Technology Agency to discuss and share insights on fostering gendered innovations and sex as a biological variable research in the United States.
ORWH and partnering institutes, centers, and offices (ICOs) are excited to announce the awardees for the R01 and R21 Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs), Understanding Chronic Conditions Understudied Among Women, which requested research applications on chronic conditions that affect women and individuals assigned female at birth.
The Annual Meeting of the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) program, sponsored by ORWH, was held on October 1, 2024, at the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. BIRCWH is an institutional, mentored career-development program designed to bring together mentors, early-career investigators, and leaders in the field for a day of engaging presentations.
The Office of Autoimmune Disease Research in the Office of Research on Women’s Health (OADR-ORWH) is pleased to introduce the investigators who received the 2024 Office of Autoimmune Disease Research R56 Research Awards. R56 awards support short-term, highly meritorious extramural research that falls just outside the funding limits of participating NIH institutes and centers.
The Women’s Health Innovation Summit is an annual event that accelerates innovation, investment, research, and partnerships to improve the access to and quality of health care for women worldwide.
ORWH has announced a new funding opportunity to address health disparities among groups of women in the U.S. that are underrepresented, underserved, and underreported in biomedical research.
In collaboration with ORWH and other participating NIH institutes, centers, and offices, the Office of Disease Prevention is seeking applications for “Interventions to expand cancer screening and preventive services to ADVANCE health in populations that experience health disparities.”