NIH awards $11 million grant to Tulane Center of Excellence in Sex-Based Precision Medicine

The National Institutes of Health awarded an $11 million Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant to the Tulane Center of Excellence in Sex-Based Precision Medicine. The grant funds the establishment of the Tulane Center of Biomedical Research Excellent in Sex-based Precision Medicine (COBRE-SPM). Dr. Franck Mauvais-Jarvis, MD, PHD and Dr. Marie Krousel-Wood, MD, MSPH, FAHA, FACPM serve as Multiple Principal Investigators for the COBRE.     

The goal of COBRE-SPM is to create a transdisciplinary center that will investigate sex- and gender-related factors that interact with other determinants of health to affect biology, disease & medicine and develop early-career investigators into independent investigators.