Research Funding Research Funding Click here for a listing of available grants in women's health and sex-based biology. Understanding why there are such large differences between how women and men experience certain diseases is at the heart of women s health research.
Biomedical research is the key to finding the answers.
Such research has important implications for both men and women in terms of clinical practice, disease prevention and manifestation, and medical education. For example, research is discovering differences in the physiology and functioning of the urinary bladder in men and women. Understanding those differences may lead to improved treatment strategies in both genders. Funding research can improve and save lives. Death rates for women with tumors of the cervix, breast, uterus, and ovary have decreased as research on those cancers has increased.