Katya Ravid

Barbara E. Corkey Professor Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine – Cardiovascular Medicine Research Areas Blood Stem Cell Biology and Hemato-Vascular Biology Why Women’s Health? It is important to uncover molecular mechanisms responsible for sex-dependent biological differences as lead to effective diagnosis, therapies and health outcomes for women.

Weining Lu

Associate Professor Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine – Nephrology Research Areas Nephrology, Genetics, Fetal Origin of Adult Disease (FOAD), Developmental Origins of Health And Disease (DOHaD), kidney development, discovery of new biomarkers, artificial-intelligence-based digital pathology tools to improve diagnosis and clinical trials, and novel drug discovery and development for chronic diseases. Why Women’s Health? […]

Cynthia Bradham

Associate Professor Arts & Sciences – Biology Research Areas Developmental Biology, Systems Biology Why Women’s Health? Women and their health concerns are under-studied in general, yet female-specific body structures are responsible for every human life on earth. With women’s rights increasingly imperiled both in the US and world-wide, it is enormously important that scientists insist […]

Lei Hou

Assistant Professor Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine – Biomedical Genetics Section Research Areas Disease genetics and genomics Why Women’s Health? Sex difference has a huge impact on the genetic risk of a lot of common diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease and Age-related macular degeneration. Research on women’s health can provide sex-specific insight into disease […]