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Close-Up Radio Welcomes Back Dr. Legato
Monday, 24 May 2021
Dr. Marianne J. Legato was recently interviewed by award-winning TV and radio personality, Jim Masters, about her latest book, The Plasticity of Sex: The Molecular Biology and Clinical Features of Genomic Sex, Gender Identity and Sexual Behavior, which collects all the evidence-based research on issues of gender identity and transition to provide a comprehensive view on
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Close Up Radio Spotlights GSM Pioneer Dr. Marianne J. Legato
Wednesday, 07 April 2021
Gender-specific medicine is the study of how normal human biology differs between men and women, especially in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Dr. Marianne J. Legato is the Director of the Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine. A pioneer in her field, her discoveries and those of her colleagues have led to establishing sex and gender
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Comments on the importance of alerting the public to side effects from both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines
Friday, 04 December 2020
This week’s issue of Science magazine* comments on the importance of alerting the public to side effects from both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines; most are transient (about 12 hours in duration) and bearable but some people will experience more severe side effects: Moderna reported fatigue in 9.7% , muscle pain in 8.9%, joint pain in 5.2%
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Sex and Gender Health Education Summit 2020
Friday, 04 September 2020
On September 11, Dr. Legato gave the keynote lecture at the Sex and Gender Health Education Summit—a national collaboration brought together by the Mayo Clinic, the American Medical Women’s Association, the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health at Texas Tech University Health Science Center, and Thomas Jefferson University along with other national supporters. Dr. Legato
Global Men’s Health Summit 2020
Thursday, 03 September 2020
On August 15 and 22, Dr. Legato gave two keynote lectures at the 1st Virtual Global Men’s Health Summit organized by the Global Men’s Health Foundation in Panama. Her first presentation, Plagues: How Is This One Different?, discussed sex differences in the experience of COVID-19. She explored why the clinical response to the panedmic has
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IGM Congress 2019
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
On September 12, Dr. Legato gave the keynote lecture for the International Society of Gender Medicine’s Annual Congress in Vienna, Austria. Her presentation on The Intelligent Genome: What Mediates Adaptation? sheds light on the historical division between the biomedical and social sciences about how the final phenotype is shaped, and whether it is nature or nurture that determines phenotype. Date: September
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The Pontifical Academy of Sciences Workshop on The Revolution of Personalized Medicine 2019
Monday, 15 April 2019
On April 9, nineteen experts from around the world delivered their views on the moral and ethical implications of the Revolution of Personalized Medicine. Doctor Legato discussed the concept of gender and its relevance to personalized medicine. To read more about the conference, click here. “Click here to view the playlist containing all of the speeches from
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The World Writes on the Body: How the Environment Impacts the Phenotype – International Symposium 2018
Thursday, 24 May 2018
We now have unprecedented power to understand the mechanisms and impact of genetic activity and the factors that modulate and control its expression. We are in the process of deciphering how age, hormones and the environment all modify behavior. This symposium was constructed to set out the most exciting and significant science in the new
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Global Men’s Health Summit 2018
Saturday, 24 February 2018
On February 2018, Dr. Legato joined over seventy experts at the 2nd Annual Conference of the Global Men’s Health Summit, entitled “The Medicine of the Future and Those Left Behind,” held in Panama. In four separate lectures, she discussed the plasticity of sex, the biological mechanisms underlying the formation of the male and female brain,
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Workshop on Female Sex and Gender in Lunch/Sleep Health and Disease – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute & Office of Research on Women’s Health 2017
Wednesday, 04 October 2017
In a joint workshop held by the National Institute of Health’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the Office of Research on Women’s Health, authorities from major academic institutions gathered together for a series of meetings concentrated on understanding the importance of gender on normal human function and the experience of disease. Doctor Legato’s
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