THINKMD, a recipient of funding under the Hood Foundation's Program Related Investment (PRI) portfolio, has been featured on a new podcast called Saving Lives at Scale. Access the recording here and learn more about THINKMD here....
Sarah Fortune, MD, received a Hood Child Health Award in 2007. Today, she is Chair of the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and the John LaPorte Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, as well...
Applications are now being accepted for the next cycle of the Child Health Research Awards Program. Proposals are due September 16th, 2020, for funding to begin January 1st, 2021. Hypothesis-driven clinical, basic science, public health, health services research, and epidemiology projects are welcome for consideration. Access...
The Hood Foundation is excited to announce our most recent Child Health Research Award recipients! We offer sincere thanks to all of the highly qualified investigators who submitted proposals, as well as our amazing Scientific Reviewers. Congratulations to each of the following on having been...
Trudy Morrison, PhD, received a Major Grant award in 2016 for her research on Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). Now, in 2020, Dr. Morrison is exploring how her RSV vaccine work may be repurposed to have an impact on COVID-19. Learn more about this ongoing work via...
The Hood Foundation's Senior Scientific Advisor, Dr. Robert Sege, shared his expertise during a recent interview with PBS News Hour for a segment on child abuse reporting trends and related concerns during the pandemic. Watch the full segment here....
Peter Hotez, M.D., Ph.D., received a Child Health Research Award in 1992 while at Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Hotez now serves as Dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine as well as Co-Director of the Texas Children’s Hospital...
Dr. Jonathan M. Davis, recipient of a 2017 Major Grant award, has just published a new paper finding that a simplified version of the Finnegan Neonatal Abstinence Scoring Tool (FNAST) may provide an accurate means of identifying neonatal abstinence syndrome and may enhance the clinical...
Aldatu Biosciences may be able to help hospitals fill gaps in testing supply immediately. Please contact COVID19@aldatubio.com for more information....
In consideration of the challenges currently being faced by our applicants and institutional partners, we have extended the submission deadline for the next cycle of the Child Health Research Awards Program. Proposals are now due April 10th for funding to begin July 1st, 2020. Hypothesis-driven...