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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Symposium on Sex, Gender and Epigenetics: From Molecule to Bedside set for Spring 2021
Friday, 04 September 2020
In collaboration with the Menarini Foundation, Dr. Legato will be chairing a symposium on epigenetics to inaugurate the Menarini Foundation’s new center for education. The symposium—Sex, Gender and Epigenetics: From Molecule to Bedside—is the first in a series focusing on the most important topics in contemporary biomedicine and technology and will be held in Spring 2021.
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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IGM Congress 2017
Friday, 29 September 2017
During the 8th Congress of the International Society for Gender Medicine, Dr. Marianne Legato delivered one of three keynote addresses (“Presidential Address”) during the course of the congress. The Congress was a great success with approximately 250 participants from 18 different countries. The main theme of the conference was “Trends in Gender Medicine: Super-Aging Society
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