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A new $15 million research center focused on making women’s health more equitable is coming to The Ohio State University.
Sarah “Sally” Ross Soter and the Soter Kay Foundation committed the donation to the Ohio State College of Medicine to establish the Sarah Ross Soter Women’s Health Research Program, according to a university news release.
The funding will create “a multidisciplinary translational research center that discovers new therapies to prevent and treat diseases that disproportionately affect women,” according to the university.
“Sally Soter and her family care deeply about the state of Ohio, having been generous donors and volunteers for many years. We are honored to receive this investment that will build on Ohio State’s excellent research and care in women’s health,” said Dr. John J. Warner, executive director of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
The program will have a dedicated “neighborhood” of eight labs in the new Pelotonia Research Center, which opened earlier this month in Ohio State’s West Campus expansionnow called Carmenton.
Two endowed chairs for postdoctoral fellows and young physicians will be a feature of the program. The funding will also support and expand the OSU School of Medicine’s health equity programs so that women from underrepresented communities have equitable access to clinical trials and discoveries.
Soter’s interest in women’s health and wellness dates back two decades in a cardiology waiting room at Wexner Medical Center. While reading a magazine, she came across an article titled “Women and Heart Disease: Is Your Biggest Concern Breast Cancer? Think again.”
“When I read that article, I knew something had to be done,” Soter said. “I am delighted to be able to do something like this. I don’t think people are treated equally, and that has to change. I like to figure out the crux of the problem and fix it.”
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Certain conditions, such as cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases, Alzheimer’s, osteoporosis, and anxiety and depression, disproportionately affect women. Studies show that women also experience medication side effects more often than men.
“Today’s inadequacies in women’s health are not destined to be tomorrow’s reality,” said Dr. Carol Bradford, dean of the OSU School of Medicine and vice president of health sciences. “With this gift, we will lead the way in defining the best prevention and treatment for women, creating new standards of care that save and improve the lives of women around the world.”
This is not the Soter family’s first gift to the state of Ohio. The Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital is named in honor of Sally’s late father, and in 2005 Soter established an endowed chair in women’s cardiovascular health research, led by his own cardiologist, Dr. Laxmi Mehta. .
In 2019, Soter received the American Heart Association’s Meritorious Achievement Award for her work advocating for women’s heart health.
Sheridan Hendrix is a higher education reporter for The Columbus Dispatch. Sign up for your mobile newsletter here and Extra Credit, your educational newsletter, here.
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