Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute
ICON's efforts recently received a boost when the National Institutes of Health designed ICON as an official Specialized Center of Research Excellence (SCORE) for sex differences in medicine along with an $8.13 million grant to support their research efforts. The NIH SCORE, awarded by the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) and National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), will focus on enhancing our understanding of the impact of the immune system on sex differences in the co-occurrence of depression and CVD and the development of a potential novel therapeutic device targeting the brain and heart.