Ritz, Stacey A

Published purpose

The objectives of this funding opportunity are to: • Support the development, validation, harmonization and optimization of standardized methods, protocols, data collection and reporting standards as well as statistical techniques to study sex as a variable in basic cellular, tissue, and animal research at critical developmental periods including old age across broad research domains; • Advance our understanding of basic mechanisms that drive sex differences across the lifespan; • Support capacity building in age- and sex-related scientific techniques and grow the science among the next generation of health researchers; and • Promote knowledge dissemination of standardized methods, protocols and techniques.