Bioinnovation Institute wants to boost women's health research: "It hasn't been prestigious enough"

With the hiring of Trine Bartholdy as new chief innovation officer at Bioinnovation Institute, the life science incubator wants to put research into women's health at center stage. The area is almost paradoxially underprioritized by the investment environment and the industry at large, but the economic potential is nonetheless considerable, Bartholdy says.
Trine Bartholdy, Chief Innovation Office at Bioinnovation Institute | Photo: Bioinnovation Institute Fonden / PR
Trine Bartholdy, Chief Innovation Office at Bioinnovation Institute | Photo: Bioinnovation Institute Fonden / PR
by ALBERT RØNNING-ANDERSSON, translated by daniel pedersen

Despite women making up half of the world's population, an increasingly smaller sum of the many billions of dollars spent on the research and development of new drugs goes to diseases related specifically to women.

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