At year’s end, thanks are due to each and every one of you for your generous support of our work. You are invaluable to us. Your support has made it possible to continue our new journal, Gender and the Genome, funded new research in supporting young investigators, and made possible our travel to the Vatican in Rome at the invitation of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, a tremendous tribute to the value of our work. You also sent us to Vienna to deliver a keynote address to the International Society of Gender-Specific Medicine. Moving into the New Year, we have begun a collaboration with the Menarini Foundation in Italy to initiate a series of international seminars at which investigators from all over the world will assemble to address the most important topics in biomedicine. The first congress is scheduled for July of 2020 and will include a faculty that features Nobel laureates and world class experts from all corners of the globe. A series of important celebrations in the United States at which we will deliver keynote addresses has also been arranged for the beginning of the New Year. Our new book, The Plasticity of Sex, is at the publishers now and will appear in the Spring of next year. Your kindness has underwritten a new administrator, Michelle Tapia, who is already working on our May 14 gala at which I hope to welcome many of you.
Without you, none of this would have been possible. I have written personal notes to each of you to thank you for your generosity; it means everything to us to review what you have done during the past year to further our work. We here at the Foundation wish you every happiness for the New Year and hope your holiday season is rich with friendship and family reunions.
Warmest personal regards and deep gratitude,
Marianne J. Legato, Founder and President
Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine
Specialist in internal medicine and primary care.