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• Focus Areas – Cell Biology and Oncology

  Martine Culty, PhD, (website)  Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology Regulation of testicular gonocyte development Martin Dym, PhD (website) Professor and Chair, Department of Cell Biol

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• Vascular Biology and Hypertension

  In Western societies, heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women, but the incidence and rate of progression of hypertension and associated cardiovascular and renal diseases is

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• Neuroscience and Cognition

  There has been plenty of tongue-in-cheek speculation about men and women speaking "different languages", but scientific studies indicate that there are actual sex-related disparities in speaking styl

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• Immunology and Infection

  Sex differences in male and female immune systems have major implications for disease. Almost all autoimmune diseases disproportionately affect women compared to men, and women are 75% more likely th

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• Endocrinology, Obesity and Diabetes

  Because sex hormones are responsible for many of the physical differences between men and women, it seems obvious to make a correlation between endocrino. Because sex hormones are responsible for man

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• Cell Biology and Oncology

  Another deadly condition in which sex differences plays a key role is cancer. There are sex discrepancies in the instances, causes and prognoses of various forms of cancer. Men are four times as like

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• Interdisciplinary Research Workshop Series

  The Interdisciplinary Research Workshop Series was designed as an opportunity to explore the research overlaps that occur across traditional division lines and to encourage an interdisciplinary appro

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• Grand Rounds Series

  The CSD/Department of Medicine Grand Rounds Series is designed to bring speakers and workshops to Georgetown University that speak to the importance of sex-based biology in clinical research and care

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• 2007 Fourth Annual Fall Symposium

  Resources ScheduleSpeaker BiosRegistration FormCampus MapDirections Save the Date for a State-of-the-Art Symposium on: Mechanisms Underlying Sex Differences in Cardiovascular-Renal DiseaseCo

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• CSD Newsletters

  CSD Newsletter - Winter 2006 CSD Newsletter - Fall 2006 CSD Newsletter - Fall 2005 CSD Newsletter - Spring 2005 CSD Newsletter - Winter 2004

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