Gender medicine aims to guarantee each individual the appropriateness in prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation. The main objectives are:
- identification of sex specific biomarkers and development of new technologies (diagnostic, prognostic and predictive of response to treatments)
- identification of sex-specific therapeutic targets
- study of the impact of sex/gender on: the efficacy of drugs and related adverse events; the response and adverse reactions to vaccines; and) the efficacy and validity of medical devices