{"id":138154,"date":"2025-09-15T16:15:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=138154"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:34:19","slug":"boston-university-receives-major-multimillion-dollar-nih-grant-for-womens-health-research","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/news-events\/articles\/2025\/boston-university-receives-major-multimillion-dollar-nih-grant-for-womens-health-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston University Receives Major Multimillion Dollar NIH Grant for Women\u2019s Health Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin news-block-editorial-leadin has-media has-media-focus-center-middle\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"3543\" height=\"2362\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2025\/09\/b-w-stethoscope.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"black and white image of stethoscope\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2025\/09\/b-w-stethoscope.jpg 3543w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2025\/09\/b-w-stethoscope-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2025\/09\/b-w-stethoscope-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2025\/09\/b-w-stethoscope-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2025\/09\/b-w-stethoscope-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2025\/09\/b-w-stethoscope-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2025\/09\/b-w-stethoscope-540x360.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2025\/09\/b-w-stethoscope-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2025\/09\/b-w-stethoscope-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2025\/09\/b-w-stethoscope-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2025\/09\/b-w-stethoscope-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2025\/09\/b-w-stethoscope-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3543px) 100vw, 3543px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin-caption wp-prepress-component-caption\">Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@hush52?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Hush Naidoo Jade<\/a> on Unsplash.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-prepress-tag\">Grant Award<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBoston University Receives Major Multimillion Dollar NIH Grant for Women\u2019s Health Research\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"deck\">Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women\u2019s Health program support will also spur investment in early-career faculty<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar news-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">September 15, 2025<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Boston University a prestigious $4.5 million grant to further women\u2019s health research and spur career growth for young investigators. It will be led by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/profile\/emelia-benjamin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emelia Benjamin<\/a>, the Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine\u2019s Jay and Louise Coffman Professor in Vascular Medicine and associate dean of faculty development <em>ad interim<\/em>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/profile\/elisha-wachman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elisha Wachman<\/a> (CAMED\u201906), a professor of pediatrics at the medical school, and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/joyce-y-wong-ph-d\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joyce Wong<\/a>, a College of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Engineering. Wachman and Benjamin also hold positions at Boston Medical Center, BU\u2019s primary teaching hospital; Wachman is a neonatologist and vice chair of pediatric academic research, and Benjamin is a cardiologist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the entire article on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2025\/major-nih-grant-for-womens-health-research\/\">BU Brink<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Boston University a prestigious $4.5 million grant to further women\u2019s health research and spur career growth for young investigators. It will be led by Emelia Benjamin, the Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine\u2019s Jay and Louise Coffman Professor in Vascular Medicine and associate dean of faculty development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":137766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":"Grant Award"},"tags":[493,494],"bu-publication":[367],"medicine-article-category":[],"medicine-topic":[],"news-article-category":[413],"news-topic":[],"bu_edition":[390,538],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/138154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/138154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138156,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/138154\/revisions\/138156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138154"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=138154"},{"taxonomy":"medicine-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/medicine-article-category?post=138154"},{"taxonomy":"medicine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/medicine-topic?post=138154"},{"taxonomy":"news-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-article-category?post=138154"},{"taxonomy":"news-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-topic?post=138154"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=138154"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=138154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}