Harvesting the rewards
The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine and the Department of Medicine at Columbia University sponsor the annual M. Irené Ferrer Scholar Award in Gender-Specific Medicine. Dr. Ferrer was a cardiologist and medical educator who helped refine the cardiac catheter and electrocardiogram, which became diagnostic essentials in the treatment of heart disease. She joined the faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1946, was promoted to the rank of Professor of Clinical Medicine in 1972, and became Professor Emeritus in 1981. She died in 2002 at the age of 89. Gender-specific medicine is the science of the differences between males and females, not an isolated study of females or women’s health, and its research encompasses all levels of investigation from basic bench research with cultured cells to clinical or epidemiological studies.
Over a ten-year period, the Foundation has awarded over $500,000 to scholars at the Johns Hopkins Center for Women’s Health, Sex and Gender Research headed by Doctors Wendy L. Bennett and Sabra Klein. We made this award to match a National Institutes of Health Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) Grant (SADll to the Hopkins Center). In 2020, the Foundation also awarded two additional grants to support scholars in researching the gender-specific effects of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Since 2011, we have been providing young scholars with grant money to support their research efforts in the study of Gender-Specific Medicine. We are honored and proud to showcase our amazing scholars and grantee winners.
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