Charles H. Hood Foundation Announces September 2026 Child Health Research Award Recipients
The Charles H. Hood Foundation is pleased to announce the September 2026 recipients of its Child Health Research Awards, supporting five investigators pursuing new approaches to important challenges in child health.
Riaz Gillani, M.D. – 2026
Riaz Gillani, M.D. Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Linkedin Globe Dissecting Germline and Tumor Mediators of Chromosomal Instability in Neuroblastoma for Therapeutic Targeting Neuroblastoma (NBL) is the most common solid tumor impacting children, with 50% of high-risk patients relapsing despite intensive treatment. We and others have found that inherited risk factors, as well […]
Catherine Buck, M.D. – 2026
Catherine Buck, M.D. Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Yale University Linkedin Twitter Globe Toward physiologic feeding in infants of women with hyperglycemia in pregnancy: A pilot randomized clinical trial One in five pregnancies are affected by high blood sugar (type 1, type 2, or gestational diabetes), a diagnosis which increases a child’s risk of developing obesity […]