Women’s Health Career Development Award
Expand Your Horizons in Women's Health
The Women's Health Career Development Award (CDA) is intended to focus on women’s health issues where further research is needed. Funding is available for research in the areas of women’s health issues, which range from disorders that affect primarily women, such as lupus and scleroderma, to the effects of hormones and environmental factors on the skin and cutaneous aging.
Featured Award Recipient
Elucidating the Role of Regulatory T Cells in Protecting Cutaneous Epithelial Stem Cell Niches
This research will investigate the mechanisms that regulatory T cells (Tregs) use to protect epithelial stem cells (ESCs) from autoimmunity in a novel experimental model of scarring alopecia. Additionally, we will comprehensively define the immunophenotype and spatial relationship of Tregs and ESCs in healthy and diseased human skin. These lines of investigation have the potential to identify novel therapeutic strategies to treat alopecias and inflammatory dermatoses.
Jarish Cohen, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Women's Health Career Development Award
Award Recipients | Women’s Health Career Development Award
Michal Kidacki, MD, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine
TIGIT Signaling in Hidradenitis Suppurativa
Erin Theisen, MD, PhD
Harvard University, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Granzyme K in Autoimmune Skin Disease
Jeffrey Gehlhausen, MD, PhD - Year 3
Yale University School of Medicine
Characterization and Validation of Type I Interferon-driven Lupus Pathology