Collective X Health, the women’s health research and intelligence platform co-founded by exercise physiologist Dr. Stacy Sims, has launched a research grant program with $200,000 in funding to support female-focused health and performance research. The program is funded by supplement company Momentous as part of its broader $500,000 “Change the Ratio” commitment to narrowing the gender gap in health and performance science. Grant applications open in June 2026, with first grants awarded in September.
The funding will be distributed across multiple research projects rather than a single study, with mentorship and peer review led by Dr. Sims and Collective X Health research leads. Findings will feed into Collective X Health’s evidence base and AI-driven platform, with a long-term goal of building a scalable pipeline of female-health researchers.
“For too long, women have been told to just do less of what men do, because the research simply wasn’t there to tell a different story. That ends here,” said Dr. Sims. “This grant program is about putting real funding behind the questions that actually matter for women’s health and performance, and building a body of evidence that will outlast all of us.”
The gap the program aims to address is well-documented: only 6% of sports science studies focus exclusively on female physiology, and under 9% of NIH funding goes to women’s health research. Women spend an average of nine years in preventable poor health as a result of products, training protocols, and supplementation strategies built largely on male data.
Collective X Health is currently in soft launch and is building an integrated peer-reviewed health evidence base, over 30 million pseudonymous and proprietary biometric data points, an AI-powered engine trained on vetted women’s health research, and a research marketplace enabling funded collaboration between academia and industry. Dr. Sims is also adjunct faculty with Stanford Lifestyle Medicine and co-investigator on the Women’s Health and Neuroscience research program.
