Partnerships with Noyce Trust and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative fuel groundbreaking research and earn a 2025 TIME magazine Best Invention of the Year award.
The Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative (Bowers WBHI), headquartered at UC Santa Barbara, is the first large-scale, collaborative effort focused on closing the gender gap in neuroscience. The initiative unites seven University of California campuses, Stanford and Cornell to build the most comprehensive resource ever created for understanding women’s brain health.
The initiative has now been recognized with transformative investments from partners like the Noyce Trust and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
“These transformative investments in our Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative reflect a shared vision for open, collaborative science with the potential to improve health outcomes worldwide,” said Shelly Gable, Susan and Bruce Worster Dean of Science. “We are incredibly grateful to the Noyce Trust and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for their investment in and commitment to the kind of interdisciplinary, data-driven research that defines scientific discovery at UC Santa Barbara.”
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