5/9/25: The Annual Women’s Health Luncheon
On May 9th, 2025, Brigham and Women’s Hospital hosted the Annual Women’s Health Luncheon. The event was in person and nearly 700 guests gathered to spotlight cancer care for women and raised more than $1.4 million to support women’s health research across the Brigham and Mass General Brigham. This year’s program featured a keynote conversation…
5/13/25: Connors-MGBRI Center Symposium: Incorporating Sex Differences into Research
Over 120 attendees from 14 different academic institutions came out to the inaugural annual Connors-MGBRI Research Symposium on Tuesday, May 13th, 2025 at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The event started with introductory remarks by Connors-MGBRI Research Center for Women’s Health and Sex Differences co-chair, Hadine Joffe, MD, MSc. This was followed by the keynote address, “Artificial…
4/2/25: The 8th Annual WHISPR Symposium
The Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women’s Health Research hosted the 8th Annual Women’s Health Interdisciplinary Stress Program of Research (WHISPR) Symposium and Awardee Presentation in the Marshall Wolf Conference Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025. It was held in conjunction with the Brigham/Harvard Reproductive Outcomes of Stress & Aging…
The Connors Center 7th Annual Research Symposium
Featured Image: 2024 Annual Symposium Speakers, pictured from left to right: Kara McKinley, PhD; Florian Fintelmann, MD; Izzuddin Aris, PhD; Hadine Joffe, MD, MSc; Vivian Ota Wang, PhD, FACMG, CGC; Rohini Dutta, MBBS, MPH; Primavera Spagnolo, MD, PhD; Dr. Lidia Minguez-Alarcon, PhD (Note: Kendra Harris, MD, is missing from photo) The 7th Annual Connors Center…
In Memoriam: Jack Connors Jr.
Dear Connors Center Colleagues and Friends, As many of you have likely heard, our dear friend Jack Connors Jr., passed away earlier this week at the age of 82. We lost a champion for women’s health, a visionary leader that recognized the importance of advancing the health of women via both clinical care and research…
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…
Primavera Spagnolo, MD, PhD Interviewed to Discuss New Connors Study
Primavera Spagnolo, MD, PhD, Scientific Director of our First.in.Women Precision Medicine Platform, spoke to local Boston news station WCVB last Monday about a recently published study that she conducted with other Connors Center affiliates. The study, carried out by Dr. Spagnolo along with Alexandra Sosinsky, MSc, Janet Rich-Edwards, ScD, MPH, Aleta Wiley, MPH, MSc,and Hadine…
