A 10-Year Analysis of Representation of Women in Patent Applications and NIH Funding in Vascular Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There has been an increasing focus on gender disparities in the medical field and in the field of vascular surgery specifically. We aimed to characterize gender representation in vascular surgery innovation over the past 10 years, using metrics of patents and National Institutes of Health (NIH) support.

Methods

We performed a retrospective review of all vascular-related patent filings (Google Scholar) and NIH-funded grants (NIH RePORTER) over a 10-year period (January 1st, 2012, to December 31st, 2021). Gender-API (Application Programming Interface) was used to identify the gender of the inventors, with manual confirmation of a 10% random sample. Gender representation for patent inventors and grant principal investigators (PIs) were compared using Chi-squared and

SUBMITTER: Xun H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10523912 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature