Planting the seeds
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.
The foundation supports the M. Irené Ferrer Scholar Award in Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University.
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.
The foundation supports scientific research in Gender-Specific Medicine at John Hopkins School of Medicine.
The Foundation has awarded $500,000 grant over a ten-year period to the Johns Hopkins University to support the work of young scholars working with 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.