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HLTH25: Investors, founders press for radical progress on women's health

By Anastassia Gliadkovskaya Oct 23, 2025

“…The Women's Health Fund was founded by Jessica Federer, formerly Bayer’s chief digital officer. After seeing statistics about gender gaps in research, she recognized it to be a “very fixable problem,” she previously told Cure. “We didn’t include women in clinical trials until 1993. We didn’t study women. We don’t have enough data on women,” Federer, managing partner at the fund, reportedly said at another HLTH event. “We owe women decades of scientific advancement, and now it’s time to deliver.” READ MORE