The Foundation for Gender Specific Medicine (FGSM) is a New York based non-profit organization that supports the investigation of the ways in which biological sex and gender impact normal human function and the differences in men’s and women’s experience of the same diseases. We aim to use the study of sex and gender to foster the development of new sciences and improve healthcare for all patients.

Dr. Marianne Legato

Is an internationally renowned academic, physician, author and lecturer. She pioneered the new field of gender-specific medicine, devoted to the differences in men and women’s normal physiology and in their experience of the same diseases. The assumption that apart from reproductive physiology, males and females are not identical in every tissue of the body. As a consequence, our understanding of the pathology of disease, risk factors for illness and treatment decisions were transformed.

Grant Winners

We support original scientific research in gender-specific medicine. The Foundation 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.

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