Eliminating Gender Bias in Healthcare: Organ-on-a-Chip

Simone Lilavois
7 min readFeb 28, 2021
Source: The Guardian

Drug development and preclinical/clinical research have traditionally focused more on the male physiology and less on the female one. For example, more men are enrolled in clinical trials than women are and more male animals are used in biomedical research. This can be seen when looking at Figure 1.

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Simone Lilavois

Simone Lilavois is a NYC high school student passionate about understanding the nature of life in relation to the Cosmos.