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September 28, 2020
WHAM Issues First Investment in COVID-19 Sex and Gender Research
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Madeleine Smith, 202-757-0811, madeleinesmith@rational360.com Dr. Nicole Woitowich will receive a WHAM Investigators Fund grant to evaluate gender equity in COVID- 19 Clinical Research. Greenwich, CT (July 22, 2020) – The WHAM (Women’s Health Access Matters) Investigators Fund is funding research to evaluate emerging COVID-19 medical research for sex- and gender-inclusive practices. Dr. Nicole Woitowich, Associate Director for the Women’s Health Research Institute at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, was awarded WHAM funding to quantify the number of COVID-19 research studies that include both men and women and analyze findings through sex and gender-based reporting as...
Past Projects
September 28, 2020
Lowering women’s risk for Alzheimer’s
WHAM awarded Dr. Hilary Blumberg from the Blumberg Lab at Yale University a grant to examine whether sleep improvements in women lead to lower Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) risk biomarkers. Women make up two thirds of all Alzheimer’s disease patients in the U.S., and a woman’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease is almost two times that of a man. Studying women’s Alzheimer’s disease risk biomarkers will provide invaluable insights into this disease that disproportionately impacts millions of women.
September 9, 2020
WHAM Issues Phase Two of $150,000 Multiyear Investment in Novel Women’s Heart Disease Research
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Madeleine Smith, 202-757-0811, madeleinesmith@rational360.com Dr. Michelle O’Donoghue will receive a second $50,000 WHAM Investigators Fund grant to study and identify women’s risk of heart disease. Greenwich, CT (August 17, 2020) – The WHAM (Women’s Health Access Matters) Investigators Fund is awarding Dr. Michelle O’Donoghue from the Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, a second grant to help improve the risk analysis algorithm to better reflect actual risks for women and heart disease. The WHAM-funded research applies emerging technologies that leverage...
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