Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award (K08)

An NIH-funded mentored career award for individuals supporting any type of research in the Reproductive Sciences Branch mission.

Currently funded scholars in the UW Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology:

• Caroline M Mitchell, MD, MPH, Women's Health (Mentor—David N Fredricks, MD)
  The Female Genital Innate Immune Response to Vaginal Microbiota (April 2010 through March 2015)

• Kristina M Adams Waldorf, MD, Women's Health (Mentors—Michael G Gravett, MD; Dorothy L Patton, PhD)
  TLR4 Antagonism as a Potential Treatment for Preterm Labor (March 2007 through March 2012)

Scholars who have already completed their Mentored Clinical Scientist Research:

• Elizabeth M Swisher, MD, Gynecologic Oncology (Mentor—Mary-Claire King, PhD)
  Genetic and Epigenetic Markers in Ovarian Cancer (October 2002 through September 2007)