Congratulations to Our Newest Child Health Awardees!

The Hood Foundation is thrilled 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 selected for funding from a highly competitive group of peers (click names for more information):

 

  • Emily Heikamp, M.D., Ph.D.Instructor in Pediatrics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    • Targeting Chromatin Regulators in NUP98-rearranged Acute Myeloid Leukemia

 

  • Alon Peltz, M.D., M.B.A., Assistant Professor of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Harvard Medical School
    • Socioeconomic Inequities in RSV Immunization and Population-based Outcomes

 

  • Nora Renthal, M.D., Ph.D., Instructor in Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital
    • Understanding Mechanisms for Improved Pediatric Skeletal Health: Novel Regulators of Chondrocyte-to-Osteoblast Transdifferentiation

 

  • Maria de los Angeles Serrano, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM), Boston University
    • Histone Marks Profiling: Decoding Cellular Mechanisms in Congenital Rare Disorders Caused by Pathogenic Variants in Chromatin-Modifier Genes

 

  • Angelica Torres-Berrio, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
    • Epigenetic Regulation Of Neural Excitability In A Mouse Model Of Infantile Epilepsy

 

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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