We are changing the way the world treats women
When She is Healthy, We are Healthy
Women make up 50% of the population but carry 100% of the future. And yet for years, women's health hasn't been studied properly. It hasn't been given the attention — or the focus — it deserves. Until now.
Registration Now Open for the Race to Beat Women's Cancers 5K Run/Walk
Join us Sunday, September 5 for the inaugural Race to Beat Women's Cancers 5K Run/Walk. Form a team, participate as an individual, volunteer or simply fundraise — your participation will play a major role in our efforts to advance women's cancer research and patient care.
2021 Magee-Womens Summit
On November 16-18, 2021, the Magee-Womens Summit will convene scientific and clinical innovators to discuss transformative women's health and reproductive biology in the 21st century.
Gifts that Keep on Giving — Just Like Her
Celebrate the special women in your life with exclusive offers and products from our partners. Proceeds from each purchase support Magee-Womens Research Institute & Foundation.
From woman-controlled HIV protection to therapies that could prevent the recurrence of ovarian cancer, we are helping to solve real-world problems and impacting women’s lives. And the potential is boundless. Anything is possible when the country’s largest women’s research institute partners with a world-class women’s hospital.
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We accelerate discoveries in stem and germ cell biology to unlock the mysteries—and enormous medical potential—of the very beginnings of life.
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We study maternal health and fetal and placental development to ensure healthy mothers and babies. And those first nine months can actually affect our entire lives.
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Hundreds of millions of women are affected every year. We are developing new therapies for STDs, including a groundbreaking study that is putting women in control of preventing HIV.
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From family planning and safer contraception to postmenopausal health, we focus on the incredible and sometimes challenging adventure that is a woman’s life.
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Treatments for infertility are safer and more effective than ever. And major breakthroughs are coming that will help even more couples who are struggling to conceive.
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What if there was a vaccine for ovarian cancer? Here, we are making tremendous strides in the detection, treatment and yes, prevention of women’s cancers.
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We study behavioral science, patient-provider communication and health service outcomes to improve access to affordable, quality health care for women—especially women at risk.
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Women are Different Than Men.
From how they present symptoms to the way their brains work. The thing is, most research has sidestepped sex differences, studying men and applying the findings to women.
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“It was really important to me to be strong for my staff and for them to see: I was not going to let [cancer] beat me down. I was not going to let it stop my career. I just wasn’t letting it happen.”
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