Program Related Investments (PRIs) are made by the Charles H. Hood Foundation with the goal of providing funds that fill the gap between translational research and clinical development and application of pediatric-related initiatives. We recently welcomed two new additions to our PRI portfolio: Prapela and ThinkMD,...
The Charles H. Hood Foundation is honored to announce the newest recipients of our Child Health Research Awards: David Breslow, PhD (Yale University) Defining a Cilia-Lysosome Axis in Developmental Signaling and Cilium-based Disease Eliezer Calo, PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Elucidating Mechanisms Underlying Phenotypic Variation in Craniofacial...
The Charles H. Hood Foundation's 75th Anniversary celebration was honored to have as the keynote speaker, former Hood Foundation awardee, Diana W. Bianchi M.D. She is currently the Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)...
The Charles H. Hood Foundation recently celebrated its 75th Anniversary. The event brought together past and current Hood Awardees, engaging them and other attendees in interactive panel discussions highlighting a few of the many research areas that the Foundation has funded over its long history. The event brought together...
A 19th Century dairy farmer, Charles Hood did not set out to change the world, but change it he did. What began as advancements in the sanitary production and distribution of milk resulted in a dramatic increase in the survival rate of infants in his...