A FIRST GENDER LENS IN INNOVATION SUMMIT
Updated: Mar 8, 2021
On 11 February 2021, the International Day for Women and Girls in Science, NOGAFEM hosted a world class panel of speakers in a FIRST OF ITS KIND Gender Lens innovation summit
NOGAFEM’s model looks at how gender and sex analysis in research stimulates innovation and design thinking driving technological solutions that are specifically designed to match unmet needs and address the health of women.
Prof. KarolinaKublickiene demonstrated how sex and gender inclusion results in better research and more appropriate innovations, stressing the importance of our duty to provide better innovation to propel better technologies forward.
Prof. Valeria Raparelliand Prof. Avi Schroeder provided insights into the importance of considering sex and gender in the clinical and preclinical setting, how sex and gender variables can be included and how this affects precisionand personalized medicine.
Research is clearly the engine of innovation.