Women's health program probes unexplored sex and gender differences [Upenn.edu]

Samantha Sangenito 2/4/164:00 AM

Men and women are subject to different vulnerabilities when it comes to health and disease. More men than women are diagnosed with autism, for example, while women tend to experience different heart attack symptoms from men.

With support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), through a new program at Penn called Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH), two junior faculty members are venturing into unexplored scientific territory to elucidate some of these sex and gender differences and determine their biological underpinnings.

[For more of this story, written by Katherine Unger Baillie, go to http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/...d-gender-differences]

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Jonda PurperMember

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