Support the Center for Healthy Aging in Women and be part of an extraordinary mission to help women lead healthier lives as they age. Your donation will have a direct impact on understanding and preserving women's well-being throughout their lives, going beyond just fertility and reproduction.
We need to think about women’s health through the lens of the ovaries because they are crucial for healthy aging. We simply do not understand how or why they age before other tissues in female bodies, and this has profound consequences for overall health. Until we discover the causal factors behind ovarian aging, the only options available to women are mere bandaids. Women don’t get real solutions from their physicians because we literally don’t understand how female bodies work.
We must start with discovery-based research: the lack of knowledge is the thing that's limiting progress, and the lack of knowledge is directly because of the lack of funding. So we are funding and building the science.
Your contribution funds groundbreaking research globally through our global consortium arm, ProductiveHealth.org - since 2020, we’ve provided over $14 million in research grants to 49 scientists worldwide, giving them the tools and support to discover innovative solutions for preserving women's long-term health. But that’s barely a drop in the bucket compared to what we need to truly move the needle. Women’s health has long been treated as a niche subcategory of medicine, garnering barely ten percent of research funding and three percent of biopharma investment while impacting over half the global population. We seek to change that narrative. The research we FUND dictates what we KNOW and how we can INTERVENE.
Our mission is to facilitate & accelerate translating scientific discoveries from the lab into useful products and therapies that positively impact women’s lives. Given the multifactorial nature of ovarian aging, charting a new path requires a new area of science. We are fostering a sustainable, impactful, and diverse research ecosystem to support this new field by funding innovative, bold ideas in areas that are deemed unpopular, high-risk, or out-of-scope for government funding.
At the Buck Institute Center for Healthy Aging in Women we go beyond just funding the research. We’ve built a global infrastructure that connects all stakeholders – clinicians, entrepreneurs, companies, investors, policy makers, and researchers – to accelerate progress. We want to mold the way industry and academic partners work together that break traditional models because novel operating ideas are key to developing products and therapies at a rapid pace.
Your support also aids our efforts to change the conversation and attract new supporters to this crucial cause through advocacy and education. We're in a historic moment where women's health is finally being talked about openly and honestly, and your donation in any amount can make a real, lasting difference.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Garrison, PhD
jgarrison@buckinstitute.org
