We support original scientific research in gender-specific medicine. The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine provides fellowships to untenured, young faculty members with the goal of fostering their interest in gender-specific medicine at the beginning of their investigative careers.
The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine is proud to showcase our grantee winners and their achievements since 2011.
| Photo | Name | Award | Year | Amount | Achievement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Jennifer Lillian Small-Saunders, MD, PhD | Columbia University Ferrer Award | 2024 | $50,000 | Investigate infectious diseases like malaria especially in pregnant women with the hope of developing new drugs to fight the disease. Award is instrumental in helping the Small-Saunders Lab get setup and off the ground. |
 | Liisa Hantsoo, PhD | Johns Hopkins SCORE Pilot Grant Award | 2024 | $50,000 | Researching Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), a mood disorder affecting millions of women worldwide. Per year, it affects more women than postpartum depression. |
 | International Bone Women’s Health Armenia, Dr. John Bilezikian | International Award | 2024 | $50,000 | Support of the Osteoporosis Center of Armenia; to determine baseline prevalence of osteoporosis and fracture in Armenian women ages 45-65 compared with older women. |
 | International Society of Gender Medicine | International Award | 2024 | $50,000 | Support educational fellowships to IGM conferences, provide administrative and website support to this central international organization for GSM. |
 | Joohyung Lee, PhD | International Awards Monash University, Australia | 2024 | $35,000 | Relationship of sex to differences in immunity and susceptibility to viral infections. |
 | Hanrui Zhang, PhD | Columbia University Ferrer Award | 2024 | $60,000 | Sex differences in the behavior of carotid artery plaques. |
 | Kamaria Cherise Cayton Vaught, MD | Johns Hopkins University | 2023 | $50,000 | Biomarkers for oocyte age-related decline that indicate limited reproductive viability. |
| International Society of Gender Medicine | International Awards | 2023 | $34,000 | Support educational fellowships to IGM conferences, provide administrative and website support to this central international organization for GSM. |
| International Bone Women’s Health Armenia, John Bilezikian, MD | International Awards | 2023 | $50,000 | Support of the Osteoporosis Center of Armenia; to determine baseline prevalence of osteoporosis and fracture in Armenian women ages 45-65 compared with older women. |
 | Catherine Simpson, MD | Johns Hopkins University | 2022 | $50,000 | Circulating interleukin-6 (IL-6) is associated with measures of disease severity and clinical worsening in pediatric pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). |
 | Elana Jaye Bernstein, MD | Columbia University Ferrer Award | 2022 | $60,000 | Impact of autoimmune diseases on pregnancy. |
 | James Gordy, PhD | Johns Hopkins University | 2022 | $50,000 | Immunization strategies for tuberculosis. |
 | Marwah Abdalla, MD, MPH | Columbia University Ferrer Award | 2021 | $60,000 | Race, gender and Covid susceptibility. |
 | Delivette Castor, PhD | Columbia University Ferrer Award | 2021 | $60,000 | Infectious disease in marginalized populations. |
 | Nisha Aggarwal Gilotra, MD | Johns Hopkins University | 2021 | $50,000 | Myocarditis after covid vaccination. |
 | Monica R Mugnier, PhD | Johns Hopkins University | 2021 | $50,000 | B cells and adaptive immunity. |
| Joohyung Lee, PhD | International Awards, Monash University, Australia | 2021 | $50,000 | Relationship of sex to differences in immunity and susceptibility to viral infections. |
 | Andrea Cignerella, MD for Dr. Chiara Baggio | International Awards, University of Padua, Italy | 2021 | $25,000 | The response of cells lining blood vessels have a different response to inflammatory agents in males and females. |
 | Shannon Wood, PhD, MSc | Johns Hopkins University | 2020 | $50,000 | Women and girls’ empowerment in reproductive health. |
 | Fenna Sille, PhD | Johns Hopkins University | 2020 | $50,000 | The effect of vaping on pulmonary immune systems. |
 | Kristina Montemayor, MD, MHS | Johns Hopkins University | 2020 | $50,000 | Sex differences in cystic fibrosis. |
 | Kathryn Fitzgerald, ScD | Johns Hopkins University | 2020 | $50,000 | How genetics, metabolic changes, hormones, diet, environmental factors and comorbid conditions affect the severity of MS symptoms. |
 | Jennifer E. Amengual, MD | Columbia University Ferrer Award | 2019 | $60,000 | Impact of biological sex on recurrence of lymphoma. |
 | Gabrielle Page-Wilson, MD | Columbia University Ferrer Award | 2019 | $60,000 | Equity and inclusion in the field of nutrition and obesity. |
 | Kristin Voegtline, PhD | Johns Hopkins University | 2016 | $50,000 | Premenstrual symptoms across the lifespan. |
 | Hilda E. Fernandez, MD | Columbia University Ferrer Award | 2018 | $60,000 | Outcome of kidney transplant in patients with corona virus. |
 | Mark J.Kohr, PhD, FAHA | Johns Hopkins University | 2017 | $50,000 | Protecting the female heart from reperfusion injury. |
 | Elaine Wan, MD, FACC, FAHA, FHRS | Columbia University Ferrer Award | 2017 | $60,000 | Long term complications of covid. |
 | Noel Mueller, PhD | Johns Hopkins University | 2017 | $50,000 | Categorization and report of human microbiome data. |
 | Nathalie Moise, MD, MS | Columbia University Ferrer Award | 2016 | $60,000 | Distress, coping behaviors and preferences for support during Covid epidemic. |
 | Emily J. Tsai, MD, FACC, FAHA | Columbia University Ferrer Award | 2016 | $60,000 | Molecular signaling in heart failure. |
 | Rosanne Rouf, MD | Johns Hopkins University | 2016 | $50,000 | Inhibiting the chronic fibrosis of chronic disease. |
 | Chen Wang, PhD | Birch-Derchin Scholar New York University | 2016 | $25,000 | How the brain differs between males and females on a biological level. |
 | Jennifer Mammen, MD | Johns Hopkins University | 2012 | $50,000 | Thyroid function and fitness in older men and women. |
 | Kendall Moseley, MD | Johns Hopkins University | 2012 | $50,000 | Skeletal adverse effects related to immune checkpoint inhibitors used in cancer therapy. |
 | Marlene Williams, MD | Johns Hopkins University | 2012 | $50,000 | Management of men and women with chronic coronary artery disease. |
 | Jonathan T. Lu, MD | Columbia University Ferrer Award | 2011 | $60,000 | Genetics and cardiomyopathy. |
 | Jon T. Giles, MD | Columbia University Ferrer Award | 2011 | $60,000 | Role of inflammation in the pathogenesis of atherosclerotic heart disease. |