Parsemus Foundation is a private operating foundation located in San Francisco, California, United States. Our mission is to create meaningful improvements in human and animal health and welfare by advancing innovative and neglected medical research. We do this by supporting small proof-of-concept studies and then pursuing press coverage of the results, so that the advances change treatment practice rather than disappearing into the scientific literature. Current areas of focus are contraceptive development (particularly long-acting nonhormonal male methods); nonhormonal, nonsurgical sterilization for animals; and noninvasive treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia.