Trainees & Awardees

Current Awardees

Shauni Omond, PhD
2025 ROSA Pilot Awardee
Division of Sleep and Circadian Rhythm
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

“Exploring the impact of artificial light exposure at night in midlife women with vasomotor symptoms”

 

Elvira Rodriguez, PhD
2025 ROSA Pilot Awardee
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

“Characterization of the role of NK1R in VMS”

 
Holly Crowe, PhD, MPH

2023 ROSA Pilot Awardee
Division of Women’s Health
Brigham & Women’s Hospital

“Migraine phenotypes and vasomotor symptoms across the menopausal transition”

 
Delphine Franssen, PhD
2023 ROSA Pilot Awardee
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension
Brigham & Women’s Hospital

“MKRN3 action on vasomotor symptoms in a menopausal mouse model”

 
Encarnación Torres Jiménez, PhD
2023 ROSA Pilot Awardee
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension
Brigham & Women’s Hospital

“Deciphering the thermoregulatory response to estrogen decline during menopausal transition triggering vasomotor symptoms”

 
Matthew Weaver, PhD
2023 ROSA Pilot Awardee
Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders
Brigham & Women’s Hospital

“Does sleep mediate relationships between environmental exposures and stress, mood, and wellbeing?”

 
Izzuddin Aris, PhD
2023 ROSA Scholar
Department of Population Medicine
Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare

“Neighborhood Vulnerability and Menopause and Cardiovascular Health in Midlife Women in Project Viva”

 

Current CEC Associate Scientists

Irene Gonsalvez, MD
2023 WHISPR Awardee
Neuropsychiatry Division
Brigham & Women’s Hospital

 
Jesse Poganik, PhD
2025 WHISPR Awardee

Division of Genetics
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

 

Previous Awardees and CEC Associate Scientists

Jessica Busler, PhD
2022 ROSA Pilot Awardee
Psychiatry
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
 

Sergey Karamnov, MD
2024 WHISPR Awardee
Cardiology
Brigham & Women’s Hospital

 

Simin Lee, MD, MBA
2022 Pollin Awardee
Cardiovascular Medicine
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
 
Jun Li, MD, PhD
2022 WHISPR Awardee
Division of Preventative Medicine
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
 

Carrie Mahoney, PhD
2020 ROSA Scholar
Neurology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

 

Amy Nichols, PhD
Project 2 Post-Doc Fellow
Department of Nutrition
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
 
Sidney Alcantara Pereira, PhD
Project 3 Post-Doc Fellow
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
 
Diana Soria-Contreras, MSc, PhD
Project 2 Post-Doc Fellow
Department of Population Medicine
Harvard Medical School
 

Jennifer Stuart, ScD
2020 ROSA Associate Scholar
Women’s Health
Brigham and Women’s Hospital                                                      

Liqin Wang, PhD
WHISPR Applicant
Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
 

Leilah Grant, PhD
2022 ROSA Pilot Awardee
Sleep and Circadian Disorders
Brigham & Women’s Hospital

 

Shanlin Ke, PhD
2023 WHISPR Awardee
Channing Division of Network Medicine
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
 
Jessica Lipschitz, PhD
WBI Fellow
Psychiatry
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
 
Lydia Lynch, PhD
2021 WHISPR Awardee
Endocrinology
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
 
Lidia Minguez-Alarcon, PhD, MPH
2022 WHISPR Awardee
Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School
 

Rose Olson, MD
2024 WHISPR Awardee
Global Health
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

 

Alexandra Purdue-Smithe, PhD
2022 ROSA Pilot Awardee
Women’s Health
Brigham & Women’s Hospital

 

Vera Spagnolo, MD, PhD
2020 ROSA Pilot Awardee
Connors Center for Women’s Health Research
Brigham & Women’s Hospital

 

Rajae Talbi, PhD
2020 ROSA Pilot Awardee
Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Hypertension
Brigham & Women’s Hospital