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The Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women’s Health (CIRWH) advances a wide range of research on vaccination, cancer prevention, and more.

UTMB’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women’s Health (CIRWH) advances a wide range of research including vaccines, cancer prevention, and healthcare disparities. CIRWH helps early career scientists through our training grants for postdoctoral scholars and junior faculty. The center also helps at-risk families in southeast Texas through state-funded HPV-vaccination programs. This account is monitored Monday – Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Central. Website: http://www.utmb.edu/cirwh/

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03/08/2022

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While every day is “Women’s Day” for us here at , today especially, we proudly celebrate the amazing and talented women tirelessly working to improve women’s health through interdisciplinary research at UTMB. Thank you for all that you do!

10/04/2021

Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women's Health Call for Pilot Applications Due October 29.

This program stimulates the development of new research initiatives in strategic areas of women’s health or gender differences. Learn more: https://utmb.us/62r

09/27/2021

ATTN: NOW HIRING UTMB Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women’s Health is currently hiring for a tenure-track assistant professor position in the OB/GYN department. Please share!

09/24/2021

Infants born to mothers who received the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine had high levels of protective antibodies, according to findings published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology — Maternal Fetal Medicine.“What’s new about this study is that we were...

08/27/2021

scholar Dr. Xiaoying Yu found hypertension, diabetes, and other chronic conditions are more common in female Medicare enrollees w/ HIV. Survival rates also differ. HIV management/treatment must acknowledge the different needs of men & women.
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y diagnosed HIV infection on overall mortality among Medicare beneficiaries for both disabled and older adults (≥65 years old) based on their original entitlement. Methods: We constructed a retrospective matched cohort using a 5% nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries between...

08/10/2021

Older adults are underrepresented in research. scholar Sadaf Milani found that NH Blacks/Hispanics are less willing than NH Whites to participate in studies. Researchers must consider minority preferences to improve recruitment of these populations.
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07/30/2021

Zika virus can have a devastating effect on pregnancy. Exciting research from scholar Maria Giraldo found that the Zika envelope protein is poly-ubiquitinated at Lys63 and that mAb against K63-linked ubiquitin neutralizes Zika in mice.
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The E3 ubiquitin ligase TRIM7 polyubiquitinates the envelope protein of Zika virus, adding Lys63-linked polyubiquitin chains that interact with the TIM1 receptor of host cells to enhance virus entry and replication.

07/14/2021

Provider recommendation is the best way to boost HPV vaccine uptake, but many med students don't feel comfortable doing so. CIRWH researchers found that merely a single lecture on HPV vaccines improved knowledge and comfort with HPV vaccine counseling:

(2020). An educational intervention to improve attitudes regarding HPV vaccination and comfort with counseling among US medical students. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics: Vol. 16, Vaccine Acceptance, pp. 1139-1144.

06/29/2021

BRCA testing in young women enables early cancer detection in high-risk individuals and creates lifesaving opportunities. A recent UTMB Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women’s Health study found that testing rates are still only around 25%. Regional disparities were also uncovered. Full text:

Over the past decade, there was increased use of BRCA testing for cancer prevention. Additional efforts are needed to maximize the early detection of women with BRCA pathogenic variants so that these cancers may be prevented.

06/16/2021

Great news this morning!
Gov. Abbott has signed into law, which extends postpartum Medicaid coverage up to 6 months effective 9/1/2021

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UTMB’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women’s Health (CIRWH) advances a wide range of research including vaccines, cancer prevention, and healthcare disparities. CIRWH helps early career scientists through our training grants for postdoctoral scholars and junior faculty. The center also helps at-risk families in southeast Texas through state-funded HPV-vaccination programs. This account is monitored Monday – Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Central. Website: http://www.utmb.edu/cirwh/ UTMB Health wants to provide a friendly, informative and engaging community for our Facebook followers, and we encourage you to comment and share your opinions and stories in a courteous and respectful manner. Posting Guidelines Keep in mind that once you post something online, it may be read by thousands of others in our online community and beyond. Therefore, we encourage everyone to use caution when sharing any personal information, and not to post medical information, clinical images or other sensitive content on any of our social media sites. For your own privacy and protection, we encourage you not to share information such as your medical record number, financial information or any other information that you and/or your friends and relatives would not want strangers to know. Similarly, you should not post private, personal or sensitive information belonging to or about any other person or organization. To maintain a positive and productive online community, please do not: • Post material that infringes on the rights of any third party, including intellectual property, privacy or publicity rights. • Post material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, slanderous, hateful, or embarrassing to any other person or entity as determined by UTMB Health in its sole discretion. • Post advertisements or solicitations of business. • Post chain letters or pyramid schemes. • Impersonate another person. • Allow any other person or entity to use your identification for posting or viewing comments. • Post the same comment more than once or “spam.” Likes and Links Please be aware that the “likes” of and links to websites and pages belonging to other people and other organizations: • do not constitute UTMB Health's official or global endorsement of such people or organizations or of any products, services or publications offered by such people and organizations, • do not signify UTMB Health's agreement with or support of all information, views and opinions expressed by these people and organizations, and • do not necessarily reflect UTMB Health's official views. Images, Location Services and Tagging Please be aware that personal photos taken at and/or tagged to “UTMB” via location services and other location-based features may automatically be associated with UTMB’s page by Facebook, and appear/be available to the public via this page—UTMB has no control over this. Please be advised of this issue and review your Facebook privacy and photo management settings. Your privacy is important to us. By participating on UTMB social media sites, you agree to these terms and agree that you will indemnify UTMB Health against any damages, losses, liabilities, judgments, costs or expenses arising out of a claim by a third party relating to any material you have posted on this site.