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Table 2 Examples of research proposals approved by the two programmes in question (randomly chosen) [16].

From: Focus on sex differences in grant applications submitted to the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development

Prevention+

Innovation+

-Risk prediction based on vascular risk factors; Development of an instrument for guiding preventive measures in the elderly.

-Rehabilitation and Sports: a study on the effect of a sports and physically active lifestyle stimulation programme during and after the regular rehabilitation treatment, on the degree of sports participation, daily physical activity and health status in a population of rehabilitating patients.

-Development and evaluation of an educational intervention targeted at optimizing adherence to measures aimed at preventing asthma in children with a familial allergic disposition.

-Cellular reprogramming in neuromuscular tissues as a response to genetic lesions in the cellular network for energy homeostasis – Adaptation and (programmed) cell death.

-Towards gene therapy for haemophilia: a research programme on the transfer of the genes for factor VIII and IX into hepatocytes and into the liver.

-Functional and molecular characterization of the role of cytokines in development of human lymphocytes.

-The role of the glycocalyx in myocardial perfusion and coronary endothelial function in health and disease

  1. +As a result of privacy considerations, no titles of grant research proposals included in this study are shown.