Women’s Brain Foundation and Barcelona Supercomputing Center Unite to Close the Gender Gap in Brain and Mental Health

17 November 2025

The Women’s Brain Foundation (WBF) is proud to announce a new strategic collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain’s national supercomputing facility and one of Europe’s foremost institutions in high-performance computing.

This partnership, stablished with the Bioinfo4Women initiative from the BSC’s Life Sciences Department, reflects our shared commitment to closing the gender gap in brain and mental health. By harnessing the power of advanced computing and artificial intelligence, we aim to accelerate sex- and gender-informed neuroscience and foster innovation that is inclusive, data-driven, and transformative.

Together, WBF and BSC will amplify awareness, foster pioneering research, and connect diverse disciplines—from science and technology to clinical practice and policy. This collaboration is grounded in our mutual dedication to equity, excellence, and meaningful change.

Through this partnership, the two institutions will co-create initiatives that advance brain health for all—with gender equity at the core.

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Health begins with human beings, individuals – men and women are different when it comes to brain and mental disease frequency, severity, symptomatology, risk factors and even response to treatments. Thanks to the gifts from supporters like you the scientific community is starting to take note. We have shown the world that in diseases like Alzheimer’s for instance, disease progression is faster in women than men and women show different levels of biomarkers.

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