 At the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center Annual Lunch with the Scientists: (l to r) Ryan Fisher; Janet Pregler, M.D.; Mary Ann Cloyd; Cameron Diaz; Gail Greendale, M.D.; and Sandra Bark This month we bring you news from one of our early healthcare partners, the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center. Opening in 1995, the Center was one of the first in the nation to feature ‘one stop shopping,” as Iris Cantor calls it. For the past few years the Woman’s Health Center has also supported research, using funds raised especially for this purpose by its Executive Advisory Board. Seeking to understand human sex differences in health and disease, awardees have conducted ground-breaking studies in medical issues and diseases unique to women and have developed and tested clinical interventions for women. All investigators at UCLA CTSI (Clinical and Translational Science Institute) centers are eligible for these research grants.
Recently five projects received these Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center Executive Advisory Board-CTSI Awards for their contributions to women’s health research or research where exploration of sex and gender-based differences is relevant. The awardees are:
- Hilary Coller, PhD; Associate Professor, Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology and Biological Chemistry, UCLA: “Is switching from long to short form RECK (reversion-inducing cysteine-rich protein with kazal motifs) an important contributor to breast cancer progression and metastasis for triple negative breast cancer?”
- Sandra Orsulic, PhD; Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center: “Molecular events associated with ovarian aging that lead to the development of ovarian cancer.”
- Kirsten Tillisch, MD; Associate Professor, Medicine (Digestive Diseases), UCLA: “Sex differences in gut microbiota in IBS.”
- Kathrin Plath, PhD; Professor, Biological Chemistry, UCLA; and Anna Sahakyan; 3rd Year Graduate Student, UCLA: “Improving the epigenetic stability of female human embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells for their safe use in downstream applications.”
- Edythe London, PhD; Professor, Psychiatry and Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, UCLA; and Nicole Petersen, PhD; Postdoctoral Student, Department of Psychiatry (Molecular Imaging), UCLA: “Gender differences in behavioral and neural response to reduced nicotine cigarettes in young smokers.”
A list of prior awarded projects is available at the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center Website.
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