Here is a current list of externally funded investigations engaging our faculty in improving the health of the public, in the Northwest and around the world.
Our collaborators include government agencies such as the US Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to nonprofit advocacy and research organizations, foundations and corporations.
GYNECOLOGIC CANCERS
Coordinating Center for Population-based Research to Optimize Cancer Screening (PROSPR) (U24)
Constance Mao, MD
Funding Source: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC)
Active: 4/1/2019-3/31/2020
Mutator Phenotypes that Better Predict PARP Inhibitor Response in Ovarian Carcinomas
Elizabeth Swisher, MD
Funding Source: US Department of Defense (DOD)
Active: 8/1/2017-7/31/2020
Real-time assessment of homologous recombination deficiency during ovarian cancer treatment
Elizabeth Swisher, MD
Funding Source: US Department of Defense (DOD)
Active: 7/1/2017-6/30/2020
Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program
Elizabeth Swisher, MD
Funding Source: Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc.
Active: 3/16/2017-3/15/2020
The effects of moderate exercise on distress, quality of life, and biomarkers of angiogenesis and chronic stress in ovarian cancer survivors
Kathryn P. Pennington, MD
Funding Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Active: 9/5/2018-8/31/2020
Understanding Inherited Ovarian Cancer Beyond BRCA1 and BRCA2
Barbara S. Norquist, MD
Funding Source: US Department of Defense (DOD)
Active: 6/1/2019-5/31/2022
CTN Network Group Operations Center: 1416 BIQSFP: Phase II randomized trial of cisplatin with or without ABT-888
Elizabeth Swisher, MD
Funding Source: Oregon Health and Science University
Active: 4/26/2019-2/29/2020
Mechanisms of PARP Inhibitor Resistance in Ovarian Cancer
Elizabeth Swisher, MD
Funding Source: Mayo Clinic
Active: 2/1/2019-1/31/2020
Immune profiling of BRCA1 and platinum resistance in ovarian cancer
John B. Liao, MD, PhD
Funding Source: US Department of Defense (DOD)
Active: 9/2/2014-9/1/2020
FAMILY PLANNING
Exploring best practices and evaluating outcomes in community-based abortion care outside the formal health care system in the U.S.
Sarah Prager, MD, MAS
Funding source: Society of Family Planning
Active: 10/1/2017-9/30/2019
Advance provision of emergency contraceptive pills: evaluating and improving provider knowledge and practice patterns at a student health center using the electronic health system
Melissa E. Paulen, MD
Funding Source: Society of Family Planning
Active: 3/1/2019-6/30/2020
A Phase 3, Prospective, Multi-Center, Single-Arm, Open-Label Study to Evaluate VeraCept®, a Long-Acting Reversible Intrauterine Contraceptive for Contraceptive Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability, with a Randomized, Controlled, Multi-Center, Single-Blind S
Elizabeth A. Micks, MD, MPH
Funding Source: Sebela Pharmaceuticals
Active: 2/21/2019-10/31/2023
HIV/AIDS
Extracellular vesicles in semen and genital HIV infection and immunity during heroin addiction and methadone or buprenorphine substitution therapy
Florian Hladik, MD, PhD
Funding Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Active: 7/1/2015-5/31/2020
Long Acting Film technology for Contraception and HIV Prevention (LATCH)
Dorothy L. Patton, PhD
Funding Source: Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation
Active: 2/19/2019-1/31/2020
Anti-proliferative therapy for eradication of the HIV reservoir
Florian Hladik, MD, PhD
Funding Source: American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR)
Active: 7/1/2017-6/30/2020
HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS (HPV)
Clinical Evaluation of the Xpert® HPV Assay as a Primary Screening Test for the Detection of High-grade Cervical Disease in Women Undergoing Routine Cervical Cancer Screening
Constance Mao, MD
Funding Source: Cepheid, Inc.
Active: 6/1/2015-12/31/2020
MENOPAUSE
MsFLASH: Living a Healthy Menopause
Susan D. Reed, MD, MPH, MS
Funding Source: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC)
Active: 4/1/2019-3/31/2020
MICROBICIDE DEVELOPMENT
Systems and carcinogenic impact assessment of topical microbicides on human mucosa
Florian Hladik, MD, PhD
Funding Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Active: 5/1/2015-4/30/2020
Film Antiretroviral Microbicide Evaluation
Dorothy L. Patton, PhD
Funding Source: Magee-Womens Hospital
Active: 6/1/2019-5/31/2020
MICROBIOME FALLOPIAN TUBE
The role of fallopian tube microbiome in ovarian carcinogenesis
Bo Yu, MD, MS
Funding Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Active: 3/1/2018-2/28/2023
OBSTETRIC QUALITY OUTCOMES
Washington State Perinatal Regional Coordination
Jane Hitti, MPH
Funding Source: Washington State Department of Health (DOH)
Active: 7/1/2019-6/30/2020
PREECLAMPSIA
Evaluation of Innate Lymphoid Cells in Normal Pregnancy and Preeclampsia
Stephen A. McCartney, MD, PhD
Funding Source: Washington State Obstetrical Association
Active: 5/1/2019-4/30/2020
PREGNANCY AND POSTPARTUM CARE
Pregnancy Related Care Research Network (PRCRN)
Jay Schulkin, PhD
Funding Source: Health Resources and Services Administration
Active: 9/1/2019-8/31/2020
Does the message matter? Assessing the effect of SMS content and participant characteristics on engagement and care seeking outcomes from the Mobile WACh studies
Jennifer Unger, MD, MPH
Funding Source: Royalty Research Fund (RRF)
Active: 4/1/2019-3/30/2020
Mobile WACh NEO: Mobile Solutions for Neonatal Health and Maternal Support
Jennifer Unger, MD, MPH
Funding Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Active: 6/1/2019-3/31/2024
PREGNANCY INFECTIONS, FETAL INJURY & PRETERM BIRTH
Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS) Specimen Repository Network
David Eschenbach, MD
Funding Source: Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS)
Active: 7/1/2019-12/31/2019
Achieving Targeted Delivery of Drugs to Uterine Muscle in Women for the Prevention of Preterm Labour
Kristina Adams Waldorf, MD
Funding Source: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Active: 1/1/2018-7/30/2020
S2 Adams Waldorf Y58
Kristina Adams Waldorf, MD
Funding Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Active: 5/1/2019-4/30/2020
Placentomics using a novel method to isolate circulating placental derivatives
Michael Gravett, MD
Funding Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Active: 9/20/2016-7/31/2021
RACIAL DISPARITIES
The Endometrial Cancer Action Network for African-Americans (ECANA): Building a Bridge of Engagement
Kemi M. Doll, MD, MSCR
Funding Source: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Active: 12/1/2017-11/30/2019
Racial Disparities in Endometrial Cancer: The Role of Diagnostic Care Pathways
Kemi M. Doll, MD, MSCR
Funding Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Active: 1/1/2018-12/31/2021
ECANA Conference
Kemi M. Doll, MD, MSCR
Funding Source: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Active: 2/1/2019-1/31/2020
REPRODUCTIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY
Binding and internalization of anti-SAS1B antibodies to human oocytes
Genevieve S. Neal-Perry, MD, PhD
Funding Source: Overa, Inc.
Active: 3/18/2019-3/18-2020
STI
Refinement of a Pig-Tail Macaque Model of Gonococcal Infection
Dorothy L. Patton, PhD
Funding Source: BIOQUAL, Inc.
Active: 9/24/2018-11/23/2019
ZIKA VIRUS
Sofosbuvir Protection of the Fetal Brain from Zika Virus Infection in Pregnancy
Kristina Adams Waldorf, MD
Funding Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Active: 3/1/2019-2/28/2021
Mechanisms of sexual Zika virus transmission and early immunopathogenesis
Lucia Vojtech, PhD
Funding Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Active: 12/1/2016-11/30/2019
WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RESEARCH
Women's Reproductive Health Research at the University of Washington
Barbara Goff, MD
Funding Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Active: 7/1/2019-6/30/2020
Evaluating the role of mediobasal hypothalamic gliosis and body composition in pregnancy
Suchitra Chandrasekaran, MD, MSCE
Funding Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH), WRHR
Active: 1/1/2016-6/30/2020
The effect of menstrual cycle timing and the contraceptive vaginal ring on vaginal immunity and endocervical gene expression
Elizabeth Micks, MD, MPH
Funding Souce: National Institutes of Health (NIH), WRHR
Active: 1/1/2016-6/30/2020