Iris Sommer receives Huibregtsenprice for ‘unequal medical treatment men and women’
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Iris Sommer receives huibregtsen prize for ‘unequal medical treatment of women and men’.
On the twenty-third Evening of Science & Society, last night in the Pieterskerk in The Hague, Prof. I. Sommer received the Huibregtsen Prize 2022 for her research project ‘Unequal medical treatment of women and men’. Psychiatrist Iris Sommer is professor of Cognitive Aspects of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders at the Department of Neuroscience of the University Medical Center Groningen. With her groundbreaking work, Iris Sommer focuses, among other things, on the wonderful fact that the female brain is much less well researched than the male brain. One of Sommer’s main findings is that female hormones (such as estrogens) play a major protective role in psychotic disorders. While often prescribed antipsychotics appear to suppress the production of estrogens. With this important insight, Sommer has created new treatment guidelines for the care of women with psychotic disorders, and significantly improved the treatment perspectives of female patients. That is a major achievement. Jury report |
