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FemPharma

Inspiration

This project comes from something deeply personal. Living with Crohn’s disease, I’ve faced countless hospital visits and medications. During one of my worst flares, I was overdosed — not because of negligence, but because the dosage guidelines were based on studies done mostly in men.

That moment made me realize something heartbreaking: women like me are invisible in so much of medical research. I didn’t want anyone else to go through that same fear, so I built FemPharma.

What it does

FemPharma is an AI-powered tool that detects gender bias in drug data and highlights risks where women may react differently than men.

Ingests FDA data, clinical notes, or manual inputs
Detects when dosages, side effects, or outcomes are skewed toward one gender
Provides visual, interactive reports that make treatments safer, fairer, and more personalized

How we built it

Designed a pipeline to clean messy FDA and clinical drug data
Used the TabFBN AI module to analyze structured tabular data and reveal hidden gender-based differences
Built an interactive dashboard to visualize risks, compare male vs. female outcomes, and simulate different scenarios
Packaged everything into a deployable app — so it’s not just code, but something real that patients, doctors, and researchers can use

Challenges we ran into

Health data limitations: real-world datasets are incomplete, male-skewed, and messy
Emotional weight: reliving my own hospital experiences while building the project was painful, but it reminded me why this matters so much

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Turning a deeply personal story into a solution that could impact millions
Building a prototype that not only detects bias but explains it visually and interactively
Proving that FemPharma represents both science and humanity

What we learned

Bias isn’t just a technical issue — it’s a human issue
It hides in the data but shows up in real lives, in hospitals, in the way women’s pain is dismissed
AI can be more than prediction — it can be advocacy and a voice for the overlooked

What's next for FemPharma

Expand datasets and integrate more FDA drug records
Make the tool usable by clinicians in real time
Create patient-friendly reports, so women can advocate for themselves
Work toward rewriting the medical story — one where women are no longer invisible in research, and care is truly equal