Women's Health Innovation Scholar (WHINS)
Women's Health Innovation Scholar Program
The goal of the WHINS program is to support early-career scientists at the University of Colorado School of Medicine who aim to impact patient care by accelerating women’s health or sex and gender differences research. These areas of research include cardiovascular disease, diabetes/metabolism and/or the intersection of mental and physical health. The WHINS program provides grant support, mentoring, and training opportunities designed to advance early researchers' careers.
For this award mechanism, a mentor and a career development plan are required. Priorities will include, but will not be limited to, proposals that illustrate a pathway for translation to patient care. WHINS program includes up to $100,000 of salary support (plus benefits) guaranteed for two years, with a 3rd being negotiable, plus $35,000 in annual project support funds.
The next funding cycle will begin in Spring 2025
Our Scholars in Action
Christina Metcalf, PhD
Dr. Metcalf is an assistant professor and clinical psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Metcalf’s project aims to understand how childhood adversity creates this risk through a series of assessments of mood, cognitive function, and biological response to a current stressor. The results of this project will inform interventions to help women with childhood adversity build resilience to stress as they proceed through the menopause transition.
Suet Nee Chen, PhD
Dr. Chen is an assistant professor and basic scientist in the Division of Cardiology and a Boettcher Scholar. Her focus is on molecular genetics and pathogenesis of inherited cardiomyopathies. WHINS has given Dr. Chen the opportunity to delve into sex differences in cardiomyopathy and generate exciting results to form novel hypotheses to prepare for an R01 grant proposal.
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To learn more about the Women’s Health Innovation Scholar Program, contact Carly Pilius
Email: Carly.Pilius@cuanschutz.edu
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