January 2021 Award Recipients

The Hood Foundation is honored to announce our most recent Child Health and Major Grant Award Recipients!

With the utmost respect and appreciation for all of the highly qualified investigators who submitted proposals, as well as our wonderful Scientific Reviewers, we offer sincere congratulations to each of the following on having been selected for funding from a highly competitive group of peers (click names for more information):

Child Health Research Awards Program

  • Pui Lee, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital
      • mTORC1 as a Mediator of Hemophagocytosis and Macrophage Activation Syndrome
  • Yana Pikman, M.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
      • Precision Medicine for Pediatric Acute Leukemia
  • Andrea Spencer, M.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Boston Medical Center
      • Rising Suicides in Black Children with ADHD: The Role of Discrimination
  • Elizabeth Yen, M.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Tufts Medical Center
      • Salivary Transcriptomic Analysis to Understand Sex-Dependent Inflammatory Effects of Prenatal Opioid Exposure on the Brain Reward Signaling

 

Major Grants Initiative to Advance Child Health:

  • Daniel Dickstein, M.D., F.A.A.P., Hall-Mercer Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, McLean Hospital
      • Brain/Behavior Mechanisms Of Irritability And Suicide In Children And Adolescents

 

Learn more about the Hood Foundation’s funding programs here.

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Cami Martin, MD, MS, Chief Scientific Officer of the Charles Hood Foundation

The Charles H. Hood Foundation Welcomes Dr. Camilia Martin as Chief Scientific Officer

The Charles H. Hood Foundation is delighted to announce that Camilia (“Cami”) R. Martin, MD, MS, has joined the Foundation as Chief Scientific Officer. In this leadership role, Dr. Martin will steward and advance the Hood Foundation’s child health research portfolio, overseeing pediatric research awards and serving as a strategic scientific partner across initiatives, including the Hood Pediatric Innovation Hub.

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