Announcing January 2020 Award Recipients
The Hood Foundation is honored to announce our most recent cohort of Child Health and Major Grant Award Recipients! We offer sincere thanks to all of the highly qualified investigators who submitted proposals, as well as our amazing Scientific Reviewers for each program. Congratulations to each of the following on having been selected for funding […]
Child Health Awardee Spotlight: Ellen Roche, Ph.D.
Dr. Ellen Roche was selected as the final of only five recipients of our competitive July 2019 Child Health Research Awards. Dr. Roche serves as Assistant Professor at MIT’s Mechanical Engineering Department and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. Her research focuses on applying new innovative technologies to the development of cardiac devices for improving […]
Child Health Awardee Spotlight: E. Alice Lee, Ph.D.
Congratulations to Dr. E. Alice Lee, who received one of our five July 2019 Child Health Research Awards. Dr. Lee is Assistant Professor in the Division of Genetics and Genomics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Lee’s lab focuses on aberrations in repetitive DNA, particularly transposable elements, and how they affect RNA […]
The Power of Healthy, Positive Relationships to Mitigate the Harms of Childhood Trauma
The Hood Foundation’s Senior Scientific Advisor, Dr. Robert Sege, was recently interviewed by the Boston Globe regarding a study he co-authored on positive childhood experiences and adult mental and relational health. Their findings suggest sustained, positive relationships with caring adults can help mitigate the harmful effects of childhood trauma. Read more: Boston Globe Article JAMA […]
Child Health Awardee Spotlight: Nate Jowett, M.D.
Dr. Nate Jowett was selected as one of only five recipients of our July 2019 Child Health Research Awards. He is Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Surgical Photonics & Engineering Laboratory at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Dr. Jowett’s Hood-funded project focuses on gene therapy for […]
Child Health Awardee Spotlight: Jason Greenberg, M.D., M.H.S.
Dr. Jason Greenberg was awarded a Child Health Research Award in July 2019. He is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine, specializing in Nephrology. Dr. Greenberg’s Hood-funded project seeks to study and ultimately improve the care of hospitalized children at risk of Acute Kidney Injury. Learn more here.
Child Health Awardee Spotlight: William Chang, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. William Chang is one of only five recipients of our highly-competitive July 2019 Child Health Research Awards Program grant funding. He is an Assistant Professor at Yale School of Medicine, working in the Department of Internal Medicine and the Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program. Dr. Chang’s Hood-funded project seeks to improve understanding and ultimately […]
REMINDER: Application Deadline 10/7/19 for Child Health Research Awards Program
Proposals are due October 7th for funding to begin January 1st of 2020. Hypothesis-driven clinical, basic science, public health, health services research, and epidemiology projects are welcome for consideration. Click here for full eligibility guidelines and application instructions.
Alumni News: David A. Sinclair, PhD
Dr. David Sinclair, recipient of a January 2000 Hood Child Health Award, has been receiving positive feedback to his new book, co-authored with journalist Matthew LaPlante, Lifespan: Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To. Learn more and order a copy here.
New Publication: Dartmouth Atlas of Neonatal Intensive Care, co-authored by David Goodman, MD
Dr. David C. Goodman, a two-time former Hood awardee, has co-authored The Dartmouth Atlas of Neonatal Intensive Care. The Atlas reports on a series of studies of regional and hospital variation in newborn and neonatal intensive care across four populations: the total US birth cohort; the Anthem-insured US birth cohort; the Texas Medicaid-insured birth cohort; […]