2024 Call for Proposals
| Proposals Due |
| May 15, 2024 |
| Start Date |
| July 1, 2024 |
Purpose
The Women’s Health Technologies Initiative seeks to apply engineering technology to develop novel strategies to improve the detection, diagnosis and treatment of conditions affecting the female reproductive system. Example areas include: contraception and family planning, bladder and pelvic pain, fertility, maternal-fetal medicine, minimally invasive gynecological approaches, and gynecologic oncology.
Collaboration Initiation Projects
The goal of the Pilot and Feasibility (P&F) Award is to generate a sustaining collaboration between engineering and clinical/translational partners that will be competitive for future extramural federal funding.
Past Winners
2024 winners:
- Whitney Grither, MD, PhD and Amit Pathak, PhD “Utilizing an ex vivo microfluidic device to study ovarian cancer adhesion under the influence of fluid flow”
- Alexandra L. Rutz, PhD and Amargant i Riera, PhD “Granular Hydrogels as a Dynamic Mechanical Environment to Investigate the Role of the Ovarian Microenvironment in Supporting Folliculogenesis”
2022 winners:
- Michelle Oyen, PhD and Anthony Odibo, MD, MSCE “Clinically Informed Computational Models of Placental Function”
- Alexandra L. Rutz, PhD and Mary Mullen, MD “In Vitro Bioelectronic Monitoring of Therapy Response in 3D, Patient-Derived Ovarian Cancer Models”
2021 winners:
- Jerry L. Lowder, MD, MSc and Philip V. Bayly, PhD “Developing a Prediction Model to Guide Surgical Decision Making in Female Pelvic Organ Prolapse Surgery Based on Anatomic Measurements”
- Christine Mary O’Brien, PhD and Antonina I Frolova, MD, PhD “Wearable laser speckle sensor for postpartum hemorrhage detection”