Women’s Health Career Development Award
Limited submission
Women’s Health Career Development Award supports early-career investigators with salary funding for research on women’s skin health, advancing patient care and developing new skin researchers.
Funder: Dermatology Foundation
Due Dates: October 15, 2026 (New applications) | January 1, 2027 (CDA renewals)
Funding Amounts: $75,000 annual salary stipend, renewable once for a total of two years
Summary: Supports early-career investigators researching women’s skin health, including autoimmune disorders, hormonal and environmental effects, and cutaneous aging.
Key Information: Applicants must hold a primary junior-faculty appointment in an ACGME-approved U.S. dermatology department or division.
Description
The Dermatology Foundation’s Women’s Health Career Development Award supports junior investigators studying women’s health issues that require further research. Its scope includes disorders that primarily affect women, such as lupus and scleroderma, as well as the effects of hormones and environmental factors on skin and cutaneous aging. The award provides salary support within the Foundation’s Research Award Program, which promotes advances in patient care through the development and retention of new physician-scientists and investigators.
Supported work spans female-biased autoimmune disease, chronic cutaneous lupus, and sex-related molecular processes in hair and skin development. A featured project investigates how regulatory T cells protect epithelial stem cells from autoimmunity in scarring alopecia, with potential implications for therapies for alopecias and inflammatory dermatoses.
