# Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Womens Health in Pittsburgh

> **NIH NIH K12** · MAGEE-WOMEN'S RES INST AND FOUNDATION · 2021 · $534,438

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
Our goal, as defined in this renewal of our career development program, entitled Building Interdisciplinary
Research Careers in Women's Health in Pittsburgh (BIRCWH@Pitt), is to build on our success to train,
nurture, and support talented University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) faculty scholars in personalized prevention,
diagnostics, and therapeutics for girls and women. We have built our program on an unparalleled strength in
reproductive sciences and women's health research, led by Magee-Womens Research Institute (MWRI) within
Pitt. MWRI is located at the center of Pitt's campus, and is immediately adjacent to Magee-Womens Hospital of
the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, one of the nation's most robust integrated healthcare systems. Our
98 researchers are fully engaged in basic, translational, behavioral, clinical, and health services research,
pursued at Pitt's six health sciences schools and at MWRI's research facility. We strive to catalyze training and
research in women's health locally, regionally, and nationally, promote the dissemination of our research to
communities, and advocate for policies that promote personalized medicine to women and girls. With MWRI as
the programmatic hub of BIRCWH@Pitt, we have markedly strengthened our women's health network and
created new and exciting investigative nodes within Pitt's Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI).
We have also created a new core within Pitt's CTSI, designed to promote research on special populations, with
a vanguard emphasis on women across the lifespan, including girls, adolescents, pregnant women, and
postmenopausal and older individuals. These programs, as detailed in this application, represent a bold and
far-reaching plan to include females of diverse ethnic groups or gender orientation and those living in rural
communities or with disabilities. These recently established platforms enable us to focus on our long-term
objectives of scholars' education, intellectual stimulation, hands-on training, intense career development
toward full academic independence, motivation of new collaborative synergies, and implementation of
sustainable women's health research. Cognizant of the fact that our scholars enter our program with diverse
academic backgrounds and investigative skills, we have crafted individually tailored career development plans
of 2-5 years, depending on each scholar's training and expertise. A team of mentors with diverse yet
complementary skills is assembled, based on the scholar's background and needs, and works with each
scholar to achieve her/his goals. Each scholar is guided by an interdisciplinary group of three mentors and
overseen by an Advisory Committee comprised of researchers with heterogeneous scientific backgrounds.
Resources garnered through our program are shared with other reproductive sciences trainees at MWRI and
across Pitt's Health Sciences. Together, BIRCWH@Pitt emphasizes imaginative thinking, cross-fertilization,
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## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10242763
- **Project number:** 5K12HD043441-20
- **Recipient organization:** MAGEE-WOMEN'S RES INST AND FOUNDATION
- **Principal Investigator:** Yoel Sadovsky
- **Activity code:** K12 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $534,438
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2002-09-26 → 2022-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10242763

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10242763, Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Womens Health in Pittsburgh (5K12HD043441-20). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-21 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10242763. Licensed CC0.

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