## TLDR

[Asterisk](https://asteriskdao.xyz/) is a decentralized autonomous organization that aims to develop research equity for global women’s non-reproductive health. This grant will fund our development through the output of a completed whitepaper.

## Vision 🤝

Asterisk’s mission is to address the disparities that hinder progressive research and funding for women’s non-reproductive healthcare. To do so, we will build:

#disease-specific data lakes (starting with OCD) for female-biased non-reproductive disorders to backfill missing data in the existing research space;

 #a price discovery mechanism that bridges the tech transfer gap between university IP, researchers, and FemTech startups;

#a DAO to cascade funds to governance-curated research iniatives within the women’s non-reproductive health sector. 

Today, we are finalizing our whitepaper with input from a cross-disciplined global team that speaks to the needs of women.