Leveraging Big Data to Improve Women's Health

Leveraging Big Data to Improve Women's Health is an NIH Center of Biomedical Research Excellence focused on leveraging Big Data to mitigate health inequality for women.

What We Do

By funding research projects, supporting faculty, improving lab facilities and boosting collaboration across scholarly fields, the center will harness complex datasets to tackle biomedical issues vital to women. The leading collaborators at KU come from a range of laboratory sciences as well as behavioral and social sciences. The COBRE BD-WH integrates a Data Set Core led by Donna Ginther, five research projects and multiple pilot projects, led by KU faculty from various scientific disciplines, to leverage large biomedical datasets for advancing women's health research.

Featured News for COBRE BD-WH

Amber Watts wins $10K GeroSprint Competition award

Dr. Amber Watts, Women's Health COBRE BD-WH research project leader, recently was awarded a $10K prize for first place in the GeroSprint Competition. The award was given at the Geropalooza Research Symposium, co-hosted by the Landon Center on Aging and the Division of Geriatrics in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

Misty Heggeness Featured on CBS, Warns of Growing Inequities in Workforce Trends

COBRE BD-WH Research Project Leader (RPL) and KU Professor Misty Heggeness joined "CBS News" and "CBS Mornings Plus" to explain why women, especially mothers, are leaving the workforce, and how return-to-office mandates and rising childcare costs are playing a role.

Aaron Teator receives NSF CAREER Award for research on synthetic polymers

Aaron Teator, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, at the University of Kansas is the winner of a five-year grant totaling more than $687,000 from the National Science Foundation. Under his CAREER Award, Dr. Teator will research ways to develop new reactions leading to unique synthetic polymers.

Research led by Rebecca Whelan sheds new light on a key ovarian cancer biomarker

Researchers at KU Cancer Center have uncovered the true structure of the CA125 protein, a discovery that could lead to more precise testing for ovarian cancer. ...

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Research reported in this website is supported by an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) and Office of the Director (OD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under Award Number P20GM152280. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.