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Women’s Health Interdisciplinary Stress Program of Research (WHISPR) 4th Annual Symposium and Finalist’ Pitch Presentations

About this Event

The Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology Presents: Women’s Health Interdisciplinary Stress Program of Research (WHISPR) 4th Annual Symposium and Finalists’ Pitch Presentations

Investigating physiologic and psychologic stress in women’s health and disease

Keynote Speaker:

Elissa Epel, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Psychiatry, UCSF
Director, Aging, Metabolism and Emotions Center
Consortium for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment

SCHEDULE: 3:00-4:30 PM
Keynote Speaker: 3:00-3:30
Pitch Presentations: 3:30-4:30

QUESTIONS? Please email
Kathleen Moloney, Program Coordinator
Kmoloney1@bwh.harvard.edu

Funding Provided by: The Gretchen S. Fish Fund for Women’s Health and Stress Research

This event will be recorded. 

WHO: TBD

WHAT: Brigham Ignite: The Spark That Catalyzes Innovations

Ignite is Brigham and Women’s early-stage innovation acceleration program focused on advancing discoveries with clinical potential while guiding researchers through the development process. Along with supportive funding, we proudly provide a team of commercialization experts that give resources to guide innovations.

The recording is now available on the Research Navigator (requires MGB login).

Speaker: Noel Palatas, Manager, Office for Global Professionals and Scholars (GPS)

Join us in speaking with Noel Palatas from the MGB Office for Global Professionals and Scholars (GPS) on how the new administration’s immigration policy changes will affect our research community. Please note that this event is not intended to address the details of individual cases and you should consult with GPS directly for guidance on your specific circumstances. The event will be recorded.

Zoom info will be sent automatically upon registration. Please contact BWHORC@partners.org with any questions or issues.

The Executive Committee of the Brigham Research Institute (BRI) would like to invite you to attend the Professor Meeting (Follow-up to January’s Meeting) from 4:00 – 5:00 PM on Tuesday, February 23rd.

The BRI’s overarching mission is to accelerate discoveries that improve human health; supporting strategies include fostering groundbreaking, interdepartmental, and interdisciplinary research, ranging from basic fundamental studies to clinical innovations.  We strive to provide a clear voice (internally and externally) for the entire BWH research community, raise the profile of research at BWH, develop mission-centric collaborations with external entities and engage the scientific community in fundraising.

We need your help, as research faculty and trainees, making sure that the BRI is working to address the needs and concerns of researchers across the institution.  These meetings provide opportunities for investigators from across BWH departments to meet with the BRI Executive Committee and provide feedback directly.

Once you have registered, we will send you a confirmation with the Zoom link.

If you have suggestions for discussion topics feel free to send them to us in advance by clicking here.

This event will be recorded. 

WHO: Paul Anderson, MD, PhD, Chief Academic Officer, Senior VP

WHAT: BWH FY20 Year in Review with Dr. Paul Anderson

The BRI is going bottled-water free! As it has been stated “more than 17 million barrels of oil are required to produce enough plastic water bottles to meet America’s annual demand for bottled water” and every year, 8 million metric tons of plastics enter our ocean.  We hope as an institution and department to become more environmentally friendly. We encourage other departments to do the same! Please don’t forget to bring your filled reusable water bottles to all of our BRI events. Thank you.

BRI is rescheduling this meeting to some time in January due to a conflicting meeting. 

The Executive Committee of the Brigham Research Institute (BRI) would like to invite you to attend the Professor Meeting from 4:00 – 5:00 PM on Monday, December 14th.

The BRI’s overarching mission is to accelerate discoveries that improve human health; supporting strategies include fostering groundbreaking, interdepartmental, and interdisciplinary research, ranging from basic fundamental studies to clinical innovations.  We strive to provide a clear voice (internally and externally) for the entire BWH research community, raise the profile of research at BWH, develop mission-centric collaborations with external entities and engage the scientific community in fundraising.

We need your help, as research faculty and trainees, making sure that the BRI is working to address the needs and concerns of researchers across the institution.  These meetings provide opportunities for investigators from across BWH departments to meet with the BRI Executive Committee and provide feedback directly.

Once you have registered, we will send you a confirmation with the Zoom link.

If you have suggestions for discussion topics feel free to send them to us in advance by clicking here.

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in health care in the time of COVID-19
Calling all Harvard researchers, scientists, entrepreneurs, students and others interested in equity, diversity, and inclusion in health care and the life sciences. Join us for an in-depth conversation with Dr. Pardis Sabeti, Professor, Center for Systems Biology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University and the Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease at the Harvard School of Public Health; and LaShyra Nolen, Harvard Medical School 2nd year student, a Young Futurists as selected by The Root, and the first Black woman to become HMS class president. Dr. David Mou, MD/MBA ’14, Blavatnik Fellow ’19, and cofounder and chief medical officer for Valera Health will moderate the discussion.

Sex Differences in the Molecular Mechanisms of Depression and Addiction

Eric Nestler, MD, PhD
Dean for Academic and Scientific Affairs
Director, Friedman Brain Institute
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Hale Building for Transformative Medicine
60 Fenwood Road, Boston, MA 02115

Direction to the Marshall A. Wolf Conference Room (Hale Building, 3rd Floor)
From 60 Fenwood Rd:
Enter at 60 Fenwood Rd lobby entrance. STAIRS: Take the lobby staircase to the 2nd floor. Walk past the balcony overlooking the atrium and take the stairs on the left (Stair 2) to the 3rd floor. Once on the 3rd floor, exit the stairwell and take a right. The room is to your right through the double glass door, straight ahead. ELEVATOR: Take S Elevator to the 3rd floor. Take a right out of the elevator. The room is past the stairwell, on your right through the double glass doors.

Discover Brigham is an annual event that provides the community with a firsthand look at the incredible action going on behind-the-scenes at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. This unique event showcases current projects and accomplishments of investigators who are paving the way for further discovery and innovation. This year, we are reimagining Discover Brigham in light of COVID-19 and will be hosting it virtually. We are truly excited for this extraordinary opportunity to reach an even broader population of global citizens, clinicians, budding scientists and family members.

The BRI is going bottled-water free! As it has been stated “more than 17 million barrels of oil are required to produce enough plastic water bottles to meet America’s annual demand for bottled water” and every year, 8 million metric tons of plastics enter our ocean.  We hope as an institution and department to become more environmentally friendly. We encourage other departments to do the same! Please don’t forget to bring your filled reusable water bottles to all of our BRI events. Thank you.

Since 2012, Brigham & Women’s Hospital has been hosting shark tanks to fund innovative and high-risk/high impact projects in the basic, clinical, digital and translational realms through its Health & Technology Innovation Awards. Sponsored by the Brigham Research Institute (BRI) and the BWH Health & Technology Subcommittee, these awards aim to advance projects that have the potential to make an impact in one or more of the following domains – biomedical research, healthcare delivery, the generation of new companies/products/services, cost savings, care quality and provider burnout. Since 2012, more than $1 million has been distributed to BWH investigators through these awards.

This year, with the generous support of the McGraw Family, this cycle’s Request for Applications includes a special track focused on advancing innovations related to solving the opioid crisis which has resulted in the loss of over 2000 lives in the past year in Massachusetts alone. Novel ideas that seek to address questions and challenges related to the opioid epidemic including, but not limited to, research on addiction, adverse effects, alternate pain management strategies, genetic susceptibility to opioid abuse, new tools for opioid research, diagnosis/treatment, management of infectious diseases related to opioid abuse, withdrawal, personalized medicine will be awarded.

Please note that this event is exclusively for Brigham and Women’s Hospital Staff and Mass General Brigham affiliates.