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SGM Research Investigator Awards Announced

Dr. Walter Bockting
Dr. Walter Bockting

The NIH Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office presented its annual Sexual & Gender Minority Research Investigator Awards recently. Dr. Walter Bockting received the Distinguished Investigator Award and Dr. Madina Agénor and Dr. Cindy Velduis received Early-Stage Investigator Awards.

Dr. Madina Agenor
Dr. Madina Agenor

The honorees were recognized for exemplary and substantial research contributions to the field of sexual and gender minority health.  

Bockting is a clinical psychologist and professor of medical psychology (in psychiatry and nursing) at Columbia University.

Dr. Cindy Velduis
Dr. Cindy Velduis

Agénor is associate professor in the departments of behavioral and social sciences and epidemiology and Center for Health Promotion and Health Equity at Brown University School of Public Health. She is also adjunct faculty at the Fenway Institute and leads the Sexual Health and Reproductive Experiences (SHARE) Lab at Brown University.

Velduis is an NIH-funded assistant professor in the department of medical social sciences at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine and in the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing at Northwestern University.

For more information about the awards and honorees, visit https://go.nih.gov/EEQLyy9.  

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