Friederike Jayes, DVM, PhD (Reproductive Sciences); and Jennifer Gilner, MD, PhD (Maternal-Fetal Medicine) have received funding for mentoring in biomedical research, and for the study of characterizing a specialized T cell in the human decidual lining that may play a role in maternal immune tolerance in pregnancy, respectively.
For her study, Dr. Jayes is the Duke University PI. The Duke portion of the budget is $1,272,542. Dr. Jayes will collaborate with corresponding PI Susan Girdler, PhD, of the UNC School of Medicine (Department of Psychiatry). The National Research Mentoring Network grant title is "The Science of Mentoring, Networking, and Navigating Career Transition Points."
"For more than 10 years, I have used my experience and commitment to support the career development of junior biomedical researchers. This grant gives me the opportunity to contribute to the science of mentoring, collect data beyond anecdotal mentoring success stories, and help identify which fundamental elements of mentoring have the greatest impact on successful career transition, persistence in research, and long-term success and retention of underrepresented minorities in biomedical research," said Jayes.
Dr. Gilner is co-PI with Anthony Filiano, PhD, (Duke Dept. of Neurosurgery) on a Translating Duke Health Immunology Award of $75,000 for one year to conduct research in support of the project titled “Fatherly Advice at Conception: A New Memory T-Cell at the Maternal-Fetal Interface.”