Reproductive Medicine Wins $4 Milion Grant
Established Women's Reproductive Health Center

UCSD Department of Reproductive Medicine recently received a $4 million National Institutes of Health grant to advance its research in women's reproductive health.

The five-year grant, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human development (NICHD) and the Office of research on Women's Health at the National Institutes of Health, will help to build the next generation of investigators in obstetrics and gynecology by giving clinicians the experience needed to become researchers.

UCSD is one of only 20 centers nationwide to be awarded with the grant, which will fund 75 percent of the salary for three new new clinical researchers.  these researchers, being referred to as "scholars," are new recruits, not existing faculty, allowing UCSD to grow its already strong reproductive medicine department.  The scholars will spend 75 percent of their time in research labs, and the remaining 25 percent in the clinics.

"Selection by the NIH for this faculty development grant is great honor," said Thomas R. Moore M.D., Department Chair and Principal Investigator of the grant.  "This will enable us to recruit and retain top young physicians who will help push forwards the frontiers of women's health research over the next few years.  These kinds of cutting edge programs help keep UCSD's Women's Health Services at the forefront."

"This grant will allow us to be a Women's' reproductive Health Research Career Development Center," said Robert Brace, Ph.D., Professor of reproductive Medicine, who is serving as Program Director.

this NICHD program was established last year.  This year only eight centers were selected.

"This program is allowing me to do research that I am very interested in and practice more than clinical medicine," said Armando Arroyo, M.D., the first scholar supported through this program.

Dr. Brace said he expects two more scholars at UCSD by summer 2000.