February 22, 2001

Packer Receives Award for Gender-Specific Medical Research

INDIANAPOLIS -- C. Subah Packer, Ph.D., received the M. Irene Ferrer Award for Original Research in Gender-Specific Medicine at the Feb. 12 Partnership for Women's Health at Columbia University conference.

An assistant professor of physiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Dr. Packer's award was based on her original research entitled "Estrogen Protects Against Spontaneous Hypertension But Its Protect Mechanism Is Unrelated To Impaired Arterial Muscle Relaxation."

The Partnership for Women's Health At Columbia University was founded in 1997 as a collaboration between academic medicine and the private sector focusing solely on gender-specific medicine. Gender-specific medicine is the science of how normal human biology differs between men and women and of how the diagnosis and treatment of disease differs as a function of gender. The founding co-sponsors of the Partnership were Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, Procter & Gamble and The Kellogg Foundation.

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