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NIH Women’s Health Postdoctoral Fellowship

Instructions: From the list of co-mentors and research projects below, select three top choices from among the approximately 30 research projects and apply on-line at http://www.training.nih.gov/transfer/WomensHealthAds. (Click on each project title to view the description.)

Michael Alavanja and Aaron Blair,
Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, NCI/DCEG:
THE AGRICULTURAL HEALTH STUDY

Edward A. Berger,
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID
and Dean H. Hamer,
Laboratory of Biochemistry, NCI/CCR:
A TOPICAL MICROBICIDE APPROACH TO PROTECT WOMEN AGAINST HIV SEXUAL TRANSMISSION: ENGINEERING COMMENSAL LACTOBACILLUS STRAINS TO SECRETE ANTI-HIV PEPTIDES

Aaron Blair and Wong-Ho Chow,
Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, NCI/DCEG:
PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF CANCER AMONG WOMEN IN SHANGHAI

Carolyn A. Bondy, and Jack A. Yanovski,
Developmental Endocrinology Branch, NICHD:
X CHROMOSOME-SPECIFIC FACTORS IN DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY

Carolyn A. Bondy, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, NICHD and Norman Salem, Laboratory of Membrane Biochemistry & Biophysics, NIAAA: GENDER-SPECIFIC LIPID METABOLISM

Nancy Colburn, Laboratory of Cancer Prevention, NCI/CCR and Michele Forman and Steve Hursting, Laboratory of Biosystems and Cancer, NCI/CCR: PRIORITIES FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH: A REPORTER MOUSE FOR TRACKING ENERGY BALANCE INTERVENTIONS

Leonardo G. Cohen, Human Cortical Physiology Section, NINDS and Steven Wise, Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience, NIMH:
CORTICAL PLASTICITY UNDERLYING MOTOR LEARNING AND FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY AFTER STROKE

Chuxia Deng, Genetics of Development & Disease Branch, NIDDK and Andre Nussenzweig, Experimental Immunology Branch, NCI/CCR:
FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE BRCA1 GENE IN CELL CYCLE AND GENETIC STABILITY

Michele Forman, Laboratory of Biosystems and Cancer, NCI/CCR and Sheila Prindiville and Ilan Kirsch, Cancer Genetics Branch, NCI/CCR:
FACTORS INVOLVED IN EARLY ONSET OF PUBERTY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN VS. NON-HISPANIC WHITE GIRLS

Michele Forman, Laboratory of Biosystems and Cancer, NCI/CCR and Sheila Prindiville and Ilan Kirsch, Cancer Genetics Branch, NCI/CCR:
THE MATERNAL COHORT STUDY OF THE NURSES' HEALTH STUDIES

Jeffrey E. Green, Laboratory of Cell Regulation and Carcinogenesis, NCI/CCR and Neal Copeland, Mouse Cancer Genetics Program, FCRDC, NCI/CCR: IDENTIFICATION OF BREAST CANCER METASTASES GENES USING INSERTIONAL MUTAGENESIS

Richard Hayes and Aaron Blair,
Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, NCI/DCEG:
PROSTATE, LUNG, COLON AND OVARIAN CANCER PROSPECTIVE STUDY

Rose G. Mage, Laboratory of Immunology, NIAID and Robert F. Bonner, Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics, NICHD:
A RABBIT MODEL OF SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS: USE OF EXPRESSION MICRODISSECTION TECHNOLOGY FOR PROTEOMIC AND GENE EXPRESSION STUDIES OF CELLS FROM BRAIN AND LYMPHOID TISSUES OF AFFECTED ANIMALS

Vincent Manganiello, Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine Branch, NHLBI and Manfred Boehm, Cardiology Branch, NHLBI:
ROLE OF CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASE 3A (PDE3A) IN OOCYTE MATURATION AND FEMALE INFERTILITY

Stephen Marx, Metabolic Diseases Branch, NIDDK and Settara C. Chandrasekharappa, and Francis Collins, Genome Technology Branch, NHGRI:
MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA TYPE 1 (MEN1)

Kathleen Merikangas, Section on Developmental Genetic Epidemiology, NIMH and Susan Wray, Cellular & Developmental Neurobiology Section, NINDS:
DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY OF SEX DIFFERENCES IN MIGRAINE IN A HIGH RISK SAMPLE

Paul A. Randazzo, Laboratory of Protein Dynamics & Signaling, NCI/CCR and Ira O. Daar, Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, NCI/CCR:
USE OF Xenopus LAEVIS TO STUDY THE ROLE OF ASAP1 IN INVASION AND METASTASIS

Michael Rogawski, Epilepsy Research Section, NINDS and David Rubinow, Office of Clinical Director, NIMH:
NEUROSTEROID LEVELS DURING THE MENSTRUAL CYCLE IN RELATIONSHIP TO SEIZURE

Dale P. Sandler, Epidemiology Branch, NIEHS and Clarice R. Weinberg, Biostatistics Branch, NIEHS:
WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH IN THE SISTER STUDY

Mark Schiffman and Philip Castle, Hormonal & Reproductive Epidemiology Branch, NCI/DCEG:
HPV AND CERVICAL CANCER

Gilbert H. Smith and Barbara K. Vonderhaar, Mammary Biology and Tumorigenesis Laboratory, NCI/CCR:
IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BREAST CANCER STEM CELLS AND THE LOCATION OF NORMAL BREAST STEM CELLS

Anne E. Sumner, Clinical Endocrinology Branch, NIDDK and Jack A. Yanovski, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, NICHD:
RACE AND SEX DIFFERENCES IN INSULIN ACTION

Ted Usdin, Laboratory of Genetics, NIMH and Eva Mezey, Pain & Neurosensory Mechanisms Branch, NIDCR:
GENDER SPECIFIC NEUROPEPTIDE FUNCTION

John N. Weinstein, Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, NCI/CCR and Elise Kohn, Laboratory of Pathology, NCI/CCR:
A PHARMACOGENOMIC STUDY: POTENTIAL USE OF L-ASPARAGINASE FOR TREATMENT OF OVARIAN CANCERS

W. Scott Young, Laboratory of Cellular & Molecular Regulation, NIMH and Harold Gainer, Laboratory of Neurochemistry, NINDS:
EXPRESSION AND BEHAVIORAL ROLES OF OXYTOCIN AND VASOPRESSIN

Jun "Jim" Zhang, Epidemiology Branch, NICHD and James Troendle, Biometry and Statistics Branch, NICHD:
SAFE LABOR AND DELIVERY PRACTICES

Ying Zhang, Laboratory of Cellular & Molecular Biology, NCI and Chuxia Deng, Genetics of Development & Disease Branch, NIDDK:
TGF-BETA/SMAD SIGNALING IN OVARIAN DEVELOPMENT AND TUMORIGENESIS