The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven Funds Heart and Cancer Research
Women’s Health Research at Yale has been awarded a three-year grant from The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven to support efforts combating heart disease and cancer.
WHRY Director Carolyn M. Mazure, Ph.D., expressed gratitude to the foundation for the opportunity to advance the fight against the top two killers of men and women in Connecticut and for recognizing the vital importance of closing the gap in knowledge concerning diseases and conditions that particularly affect women.
“Women remain underrepresented in clinical studies of cardiovascular disease and cancer,” Mazure said. “This grant will strengthen our infrastructure, allowing us to generate new research that advances treatments and provides new information on these disorders for the benefit of the community.”
According to the Connecticut Tumor Registry, 531 out of every 100,000 New Haven County residents — as adjusted for age to the U.S. standard population — have some form of invasive cancer. This is the highest rate in the state, which averages a rate of 504 per 100,000. And heart disease remains the leading cause of death for Connecticut women.
“Women’s Health Research at Yale is an outstanding organization that has successfully used its gender-specific research to make path-breaking gains in preventative health care for women, including early breast cancer detection in Connecticut,” said William W. Ginsberg, President and CEO of The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. “Its research has practical and important implications for the health outcomes of our mothers, sisters, and daughters, which we know impacts the overall well-being of the family unit as a whole.”
Women’s Health Research at Yale has successfully used its gender-specific research to make path-breaking gains in preventative health care for women.
William W. Ginsberg, President and CEO of The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven
Funding for this grant was made possible by two Community Foundation funds: the John A. & Edna M. DeLeon Fund for cancer and heart disease research and the Nellie Ward Fund and Edith P. Rausch Fund for cancer research.
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