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.
News
Research led by Rebecca Whelan sheds new light on a key ovarian cancer biomarker
Liz Felix publishes article how the mental health stigma negatively influences those even with good intentions
KU establishes $11 million biomedical center to advance women’s health using big data
Amber Watts featured in Turning Back the Clock
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.
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 P20GM152280-01. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.