NIH launches $21 million initiative to improve understanding of sex-specific hormonal biology 

Published on September 14, 2026

Program will use new approaches in computational modeling for deeper investigations into how sex influences treatment response. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is awarding $21 million to launch a research program aimed at spurring the development of computer-based methods that model and simulate the self-regulating processes of human hormones, known as hormone homeostasis. Hormone […]

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