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NIH Women’s Health Clinical Fellowship Projects

Donna Baird, PhD, Epidemiology Branch, NIEHS:
Uterine Fibroids: Disparities between African Americans and Whites

Marc R. Blackman, MD, and Michael J. Quon, MD, PhD,
Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, NCCAM:
An Exploratory Study of the Effects of the Kampo Compound TU-061 on Circulating and Tissue Biomarkers in Healthy Postmenopausal Women

Michael J. Birrer, MD, PhD, Cell and Cancer Biology Branch, NCI/CCR:
The Molecular Biologic Basis of Human Ovarian Cancer

Louise A. Brinton, PhD, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, MD, DrPH, James V. Lacey, Jr., PhD, and Mark E. Sherman, MD, Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch, NCI/DCEG:
Epidemiology of Breast, Endometrial and Ovarian Cancers

Philip Castle, PhD, MPH, Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch, NCI/DCEG:
New Approaches to Cervical Cancer Screening in Underserved Populations

Francesco Celi, MD and Marvin Gershengorn, MD, Clinical Endocrinology Branch, NIDDK:
Peripheral Thyroid Hormone Conversion and Glucose and Energy Metabolism

Leonardo G. Cohen, Human Cortical Physiology Section, NINDS :
Cortical Plasticity Underlying Motor Learning and Functional Recovery after Stroke

Michael Dean, PhD, Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, NCI/CCR:
The Genetics of Breast Cancer in Ashkenazi Jews

Raymond Dionne, DDS, PhD, Laboratory of Symptom Management, NINR:
Women's Health Research Training Opportunities in the NINR

Laura Elnitski, PhD, Genomic Functional Analysis Section, NHGRI:
Assessing the Role of a Common Regulatory Feature in a Network of Genes Associated with Breast and Ovarian Cancer

David S. Goldstein, MD, PhD, Clinical Neurocardiology Section, NINDS:
Dysautonomias Differentially Affecting Women

Gordon Hager, PhD, Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression, NCI/CCR:
Genome-Wide Action of Nuclear Receptors

Allan Hildesheim, PhD, Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch, NCI/DCEG:
HPV-16/18 Vaccine Trial in Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Steven Holland, MD, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, NIAID:
Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease

Gabor Illei, MD, PhD, MHS, Head, Sjögren’s Syndrome Clinic, Gene Therapy and Therapeutics Branch, NIDCR:
Combined NIDCR/NIAMS Fellowship in Women’s Health

Kimberley Kaphingst, ScD, Laura Koehly, PhD, and Colleen McBride, PhD, Social and Behavioral Research Branch, NHGRI:
Implications of multiplex genetic susceptibility testing for women’s health

Lenore J. Launer, Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry, NIA:
Gender Differences in Brain Aging

Richard J. Levine, MD, Epidemiology Branch, Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, NICHD:
Prediction of Imminent Preeclampsia

Germaine M. Buck Louis, PhD, MS and Enrique F. Schisterman, PhD, MS, Epidemiology Branch, Division of Epidemiology, Statistics & Prevention Research, NICHD:
Environmental Agents and Risk of Endometriosis

Susan M. Resnick, PhD, Laboratory of Personality and Cognition, NIA:
Sex Hormones as Modifiers of Cognitive and Brain Aging

Shyam K. Sharan, PhD, Mouse Cancer Genetics Program, NCI/CCR-Frederick:
Identification of Genes that Functionally Interact with BRCA1 and BRCA2 using an Insertional Mutagenesis Approach in ES Cells

Afonso Silva, PhD, Laboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging, NINDS:
Development of a Marmoset Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: Characterization of Gender and Age Effects

Sandra M. Swain, MD and Sherry Yang, MD, PhD, Cancer Therapeutics Branch, NCI/CCR:
Evaluation of Angiogenesis Parameters and Tumor Markers in Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) Specimens

Rocky S. Tuan, PhD, Cartilage Biology and Orthopaedics Branch, NIAMS:
Adult Stem Cell-Based Skeletal Tissue Engineering and Regeneration

Darryl Zeldin, MD, Laboratory of Respiratory Biology, NIEHS:
Gender Differences in Lung Function and Airway Responses to Allergic and Non-allergic Stimuli

Jun Zhang, PhD, MD, Epidemiology Branch, NICHD:
Perinatal/Obstetric Epidemiology

Zhi-Ming Zheng, PhD, HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch, NCI/CCR:
Human Papillomavirus Infection in Oncogenesis of Cervical Cancer

Regina Ziegler, PhD, MPH, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program, NCI/DCEG and Larry Keefer, PhD, Laboratory of Comparative Carcinogenesis, NCI/CCR:
Characterization of Estrogen and Androgen Metabolism by LC/MS: Integration into Breast Cancer Research, Prevention, and Treatment