• Group of people at the 2024 Consensus Meeting

    2024 Consensus Meeting

  • A young man balancing on a woman's shoulders in an indoor setting with curtains in the background, while a man in a suit observes.

    “Chaos Around the Head”: A display of body maps from women with subjective cognitive decline and a performance on shifting caregiving relationships - CIHR

The Sex and Gender Hub was introduced in 2024 as the Phase 3 continuation of the Women, Sex, Gender, and Dementia Cross-Cutting Program part of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA) Phase 2 (2019-2024). The Sex and Gender Hub continues to amplify sex and gender research in Phase 3 of CCNA (2024-2029).

SEX AND GENDER HUB

The goal of the Sex and Gender Hub is to bring the sex and gender lens into dementia research in Canada. We aim to enable CCNA’s research teams to capture important sex and gender differences in the prevalence, incidence, symptoms, progression, and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Understanding sex and gender differences and how they interact with other key variables is critical for understanding healthy aging as well as developing interventions for both the prevention and treatment of

Our goals are two-fold:

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to support researchers in capturing important sex and gender differences in prevalence, incidence, symptoms, progression, and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and

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to enhance the innovation of research in neurodegenerative diseases and aging leading to the development of more precise interventions for prevention and treatment of neurodegeneration and fostering healthy aging

PHASE 2 SUCCESS

The competitive postdocs were supported by WSGD in Phase 2

Obesity Paradox: Sex-specific implications for Alzheimer’s disease

Dr. Ke Cao with Dr. Chao Wang at Sunnybrook Research Institute

How does Alzheimer’s disease affect speech and brain function in men and women?

Dr. Natasha Clarke with Dr. Simona Brambati at Université Montréal

Investigating the effect of APOE ε4 on the functional correlates of episodic memory in middle-aged females

Dr. Rikki Lissaman with Dr. Natasha Rajah at Toronto Metropolitan University

Graphic with illustration of a human brain and text about age, sex, and gender differences in diseases, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, emphasizing that not all age the same way and encouraging inclusion of sex and gender in research.

CONSIDERING SEX AND GENDER IN YOUR
RESEARCH ON AGING AND DEMENTIA IS
CRITICAL TO DEVELOPING PRECISION
INTERVENTIONS AND TREATMENTS.

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SEX AND GENDER HUB LEAD: DR GILLIAN EINSTEIN

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