Connors-BRI Center for Research on Women's Health & Gender Biology

Our Mission

The mission of the Connors-BRI Center for Research on Women’s Health & Gender Biology at the BWH Biomedical Research Institute (BRI) is to develop sex-specific treatment and prevention strategies in clinical medicine for the advancement of health care at BWH and beyond.

The Connors-BRI Center for Research on Women’s Health & Gender Biology has brought together BWH faculty, well-known in their respective fields in gender biology and women’s health, to promote the discovery of mechanisms across disciplines and methodologies that will explain sex differences in morbidity and mortality and disorders specific to women. The Center takes a lifespan perspective to identify etiologic mechanisms during fetal development, puberty, adulthood, and aging, with some focus on periods specific to women such as child-bearing years, perimenopause, and menopause. The Center is particularly interested in fostering translational models involving hormones and genes to investigate sex-specific vulnerabilities to illnesses and disorders specific to women.

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