Scientific reviewers and partners

Emeritus Professor Sian Harding is a cardiovascular scientist and Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London, where her research has focused on heart failure, cardiac physiology and the biology of the failing heart. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and a leading voice on sex differences in cardiovascular disease.

Dr Berna Özdemir is a Senior Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Medical Oncology at Bern University Hospital, Switzerland, specialised in precision oncology and immuno-oncology. She is a Founding Member of the ESMO Gender Medicine Taskforce and an internationally recognized expert focused on integrating sex and gender into oncology research and clinical practice.

Dr Miriam Wiestler is a gastroenterologist at Hannover Medical School, Germany, with clinical and research expertise in inflammatory bowel disease. Her work addresses sex-specific patterns in IBD diagnosis, disease course, and treatment response.

Dr Kate Womersley is a psychiatrist and a Research Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health at Imperial, where her Wellcome-funded work focuses on embedding sex and gender research into biomedical research policy. She is Co-Principal Investigator of the MESSAGE project, which has successfully established sex and gender requirements across major UK research funders including NIHR and Wellcome. Her writing on medicine and women’s health can be found in The Lancet, The Guardian and The Financial Times.

Dr Shirin Heidari is a Senior Researcher at the Gender Center, Geneva Graduate Institute, and Founding President of GENDRO, an international organisation advancing gender-responsive research and data analysis. She is the lead author of the Sex and Gender Equity in Research (SAGER) guidelines – the research and reporting framework cited throughout this paper.