Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative 2025 Update

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UC Santa Barbara, Bioengineering Building Conference Room 2001

The team of the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative will host a comprehensive progress report presentation on all the latest research, publications, media coverage and additional funding that the team has accomplished in the past 18 months. 

It will include presentations from Bowers WBHI Director Emily Jacobs and Russ Poldrack, Director of the WBHI Data Coordination Core. Members of of flagship projects of the Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative will also give presentations, including The WBHI Brain Bank by Joshua Buckholtz, Executive Director and Caitlin Taylor, Director of Operations; The Global Maternal Brain Project by Magdalena Martinez Garcia, WBHI Postdoctoral Fellow; and The Gold STANDARD by Winnie Orchard, WBHI Director of Scientific Programming. 

Additionally, a presentation of the AI Core and applying advancements in artificial intelligence, large language models, and digital twins to women’s health research will be given by Nina Miolane and Amy Kuceyeski, co-directors the WBHI Artificial Intelligence Core.