Eight junior faculty women from Mass General were recently selected to receive the 2024 Claflin Distinguished Scholar Award, which is managed by the Executive Committee on Research and the Office for Women’s Careers. The intent of this award is to increase opportunities for women to advance to senior positions in academic medicine. These are two year awards for $50,000 per year in direct costs. Two members of the Department of Psychiatry have received this prestigious award.
Aderonke Pederson, MD is the Director of Research Equity in the Clinical Trials Network and Institute at MGH and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is a member of the Depression Clinical and Research Program. Her research focuses on addressing mental health disparities related to illness stigma with the goal of alleviating mental health disparities for underserved and disadvantaged communities.
Wei Zhou, PhD is an Assistant Investigator in the Center for Genomic Medicine, an associate member in the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University, and an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on developing and applying statistical methods to uncover genetic risk factors for human diseases using large-scale biobanks as well as leveraging high-dimensional omics data to interpret the genetic association discoveries. Her research encompasses several primary domains:
