CIRWH Seed Grant Program

Dr. Elisabet Borsheim, assistant professor in the Department of Surgery, is the CIRWH seed grant recipient for 2007. Her project title is “Visceral fat contribution to very low density lipoprotein (VLDL)-trigyceride synthesis in women.”

The CIRWH seed grants are intended to support promising basic, clinical, or translational research relevant to the general area of women’s health and likely to lead to significant external grant funding.

The next round for this competitive grant of $20,000 will be announced in the spring. The grants will be open to UTMB faculty at the assistant professor level and above who are conducting research in women's health. The center also encourages applications from more senior UTMB investigators gathering pilot data for new multidisciplinary projects in women's health.