In 2024, Dr. Victoria Lee received a Cures Within Reach (CWR) grant to study whether topical probiotic sinus irrigations using lactic acid bacteria, a common probiotic used in the gut, can reduce symptoms in difficult-to-treat chronic rhinosinusitis
Dr. Natasha Crooks recently presented a poster at the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM) 2025 Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. Her presentation highlighted findings from the pilot study IMAGE: An Acceptability…
BIRCWH, CRWG, and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology hosted its 7th annual Women's Health Research Day. The event featured two keynote speakers, Dr. Rachel Caskey, MD of the University of Illinois Chicago and Dr. Pauline Maki, PhD...
On March 11-12, 2025, University of Minnesota BIRCWH Scholar Dr. Mary Whipple came to the University of Illinois Chicago as its first Midwest Visiting Scholar. She presented her research to current BIRCWH Scholars. The Visiting Scholar Program is...
Beatriz Penalver-Bernave received an R21 Trailblazer Award for New and Early Stage Investigators grant from the National Institute of Aging (NIA/NIH) entitled “Utilizing spatially-informed cell-specific multicellular genome-scale metabolic models to
Pavitra Kotini Shah, MD, Associate Professor in Dept. of Emergency Medicine at UIC and former BIRCWH scholar is the winner of the 2024 Max Harry Weil Early Career Award for Resuscitation Science by…
BIRCWH alum Dr. Beatriz Penalver-Bernabe, PhD and Dr. Janine Clayton, M.D., FARVO, NIH Associate Director for Research on Women’s Health and Director, NIH ORWH attended the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) meeting in Baltimore,…
Actress Halle Berry was joined by a group of bipartisan senators on Capitol Hill Thursday to push for legislation that would put $275 million towards research and education around menopause. Read More
