Research + Education

We fund original scientific research in gender-specific medicine.

Research

We have awarded over $500,000. Our grants are funding research in diabetes vascular diseases, sclerosis, lung disease, hypertension, infertility and heart failure. In the past two years we have extended our reach beyond the United States, principally by financial and counseling support in collaboration with Doctor Marek Glazerman to the International Society for Gender- Specific Medicine (IGM).  We also have supported investigators in Australia, Italy, and have given significant funding to a major program to assess the issue of osteoporosis in Armenian women headed by accomplished bone biologist, Dr. John Bilizekian of Columbia University.

We educate the lay public and the scientific community about new breakthroughs in medicine.

Symposia

We assemble an international community of world class scholars who spend several days together discussing important issues in contemporary medicine, how it impacts human health and suggest new directions for future investigations. Our next symposium, planned for fall of 2025 in Rome, Italy, will consider the role of artificial intelligence in contemporary patient care. 

Books

From our seminars, we edit the proceedings of the most important symposia, generating books for the use of both the scientific and lay communities. Two recent publications are Sex, Gender and Epigenetics: From Molecule to Bedside and Building a Spacefaring Civilization: Advancing the Frontier of Science, Medicine and Human Performance in Civilian Spaceflight.

Space Travel

We established a new area of interest over the past year. By partnering with the Human Research Program for Civilian Spaceflight, (HRP-C) we are equipping humans to survive and thrive in space. We recruited a prestigious group of space scientists for a three-day seminar supported by a grant from the Menarini Foundation of Italy: ‘Building a Space Faring Civilization’.  The proceedings of that seminar are in press with the Elsevier corporation and will be available in the Fall of 2025. We are collaborating in developing a textbook to ensure that the data accumulated and analyzed for human space travelers will be gender-specific.  It is evident that as we build a space-faring civilization consideration of the biological differences between men and women will be as fundamentally important as they are on earth.