The rockefeller university

The Marlene Hess Center periodically requests applications from researchers at The Rockefeller University. Grants are awarded to promising projects which use the lens of sex differences and sex-specific research to investigate biological processes with clinical relevance.

Grant Cycles

2026 – 2028

Grant applications are due by July 15th, 2026. For more information please contact Emma Gray at egray@rockefeller.edu or see our internal grants page. Please note that this page is only accessible from The Rockefeller University Wi-fi/VPN.

2024 – 2026

In its first round of grants, the center awarded nine Idea Grants and seven Pilot Grants. These grants supported projects looking into issues such as breast cancer, multiple sclerosis (MS), obesity, diabetes, knee osteoarthritis, infertility, autism, Hepatitis C, Rett Syndrome, MeCp2 duplication syndrome, Grave’s disease, and many other diseases and disorders.

For more information please see our internal grants page. Please note that this page is only accessible from The Rockefeller University Wi-fi/VPN.