New study from Harvard examines gender differences in obtaining first NIH research award

IMAGE: Journal of Women's Health , published monthly, is a core multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the diseases and conditions that hold greater risk for or are more prevalent among women, as well... view New Rochelle, NY, Oct.2, 2017 -- A study of more than 5,400 instructors and assistant professors at Harvard Medical School compared differences between males and females for receipt of their first National Institutes of Health research award. The study, which also examined gender differences in numbers of publications, h-index, size of coauthor networks, and becoming an assistant professor, is published in Journal of Women's Health , a peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers .