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The Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD) is a non-profit, scientific society supported by members from various disciplines who share an interest in exploring sex/gender differences in all areas of biological, medical, and behavioral science.

Our mission is to enhance the knowledge of sex/gender differences by facilitating interdisciplinary communication and collaboration

OSSD differs from other scientific societies in several ways:
• We consider sex differences from a broad biological perspective with an eye to improving medicine. It is rare for a society to have such breadth of vision, combining basic biology of all animals with medicine, but this breadth will accelerate insights, promote the understanding of human disease and advance treatment.


• We will consider and compare sex differences in a wide variety of tissues. For example, sex differences in meiosis, gonad development, brain, kidney, metabolism, bone, immune function, etc.


• We will focus on sex differences, whereas this is a subtopic for other societies.


• We will strive to understand the biological and environmental origins of sex differences, including genetic and hormonal. In doing so, OSSD aims to foster the understanding of sex differences in disease, and sex-specific treatments that alleviate disease.

Biology of Sex Differences is the official journal of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences. Journal content covers all aspects of the effects of sex on biology and disease.