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Creating Futures: Anschutz Foundation gift to Center for Women's Health Research supports growth


Co-founder and CWHR director Judy Regensteiner, professor of medicine, divisions of internal medicine and cardiology, and associate CWHR director JoAnn Lindenfeld, professor of medicine, division of cardiology

The past eight years, the Center for Women's Health Research (CWHR), has sponsored 20 junior researchers working in an interdisciplinary way to expand knowledge about cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Studies range from fetal origins of adult disease to the effects of diabetes on women's cardiovascular systems.

Now, a $450,000 gift from The Anschutz Foundation will support the strategic growth of the CWHR and its mission to transform women's health. Two seed grants, given to early career and mid-career investigators, will allow for the collection of pilot data, which then may be used to acquire bigger grants. The funding also includes salary support for two senior faculty members and for the hiring of a programming and communications professional.

The gift adds to the more than $100 million in gifts made to the University of Colorado throughout the years by The Anschutz Foundation, including the series of gifts for which the CU Anschutz Medical Campus is named.
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