The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine was founded to educate the professional and lay public about the fact that biological sex impacts both normal human physiology and the way the same diseases are experienced differently by men and women. In the present climate of lethal cuts for health care on all levels, the work of the youngest and most vulnerable investigators in the research community is threatened. In the four major medical schools in our own geographic area, approximately 300 scholars have had their salaries and laboratory funding suspended; it is essential to help support the work of these young people so that American health will not suffer an irretrievable blow.