October-December 2025 Connors Connection
Dear Connors Center Community, Welcome to Connors Connection! This is your go-to source for the latest news from the Center, including exciting updates, publications, press highlights from our community of talented investigators, and information on upcoming events and awards. You’ll find each new edition featured on our website’s homepage and in the news section. If…
August – September 2025 Connors Connection
Dear Connors Center Community, Welcome to Connors Connection! Our monthly post is your go-to source for the latest news from the Center, including exciting updates, publications, press highlights from our community of talented investigators, and information on upcoming events and awards. You’ll find each new edition featured on our website’s homepage and in the news…
ROSA Center Funding Renewed for 5 More Years
We are thrilled to announce that the Reproductive Outcomes of Stress and Aging (ROSA) Center, has received funding for an additional five years from the National Institute of Health, Office of Research on Women’s Health and the National Institute of Aging. The ROSA Center is one of 10 Specialized Centers of Research Excellence (SCORE) on…
April-August 2025 Connors Connection
Dear Connors Center Community, Welcome to Connors Connection! This monthly post will replace our email newsletter and serve as the central course for news about our Center, exciting updates, publications, and press from our community of talented investigators, as well as relevant upcoming events and awards that may be of interest. Moving forward, you can…
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey Visits Brigham and Women’s and the Connors Center
On April 16, 2024, Governor Mary Healey visited the Connors Center for Women’s Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital to highlight Massachusetts’ leadership in life sciences and announce the reauthorization of the Life Sciences Initiative the Mass Leads Act. Governor Healey was joined by Economic Development Secretary Yvonne Hao, Health and Human Services Secretary Kate…
First.In.Women® Fellow Published in American Heart Association Journal, Circulation
A study led by First.In.Women® Fellow Xiaowen “Wendy” Wang, MD was published in Circulation for work concerning “Sex Differences in Characteristics, Outcomes and Treatment Response with Dapagliflozin across the Range of Ejection Fraction in Patients with Heart Failure: Insights from DAPA-HF and DELIVER”. The cross-disciplinary, international team found that benefits were similar for men and…
ROSA Center Team Published in Menopause
Led by Lidia Minguez-Alarcon, PhD, MPH, a group of researchers within Project 2 of the ROSA center has been published in Menopause for work surrounding “Self-reported menstrual cycle length during reproductive years in relation to menopausal symptoms at midlife in Project Viva.” The team found that women with menstrual cycles of less than 25 days…
Announcing Two Inaugural Research Grants for Connors BWH-MGB Collaborative IGNITE Awards
Pictured Left to Right: Co-Investigators Hadi Shafiee, PhD and Shruthi Mahalingaiah, MD, MS; Co-Investigators Lydia Pace, MD, MPH, and Florian Fintelmann, MD The Connors Center for Women’s Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Harvard Medical School, together with our partners in the Mass General Brigham (MGB) Office of the Chief Academic Officer, is thrilled…
Introducing our Scientific Director, Primavera Spagnolo, MD, PhD
Originally from Italy, Dr. Spagnolo worked for years with patients with alcohol and drug use disorders. She launched an OB/GYN service for women with addictive disorders and she conducted several research projects assessing the consequences of alcohol use during pregnancy. In 2012, she moved to the United States to complete her post-doctoral fellowship at NIH,…
Connors Center Announces Receipt of Signature 5-Year NIH Specialized Center of Research Excellence Grant
The Connors Center is thrilled to announce that we have been awarded a signature U54 Center grant from the NIH to support a 5-year multi-project, core-supported grant to investigate the neural processing of stress, which is strongly linked to adverse health outcomes in aging women. The Brigham/Harvard Center for Stress and Neural Regulation of Reproductive…
