PRI Company Update: Prapela Awarded $1M from the Ohio Opioid Technology Challenge
We are excited to share that Prapela, Inc. has been awarded $1,000,000 for its efforts to improve the treatment of opioid-exposed newborns in the Ohio Opioid Technology Challenge. Prapela SVS is a gentle, random vibration that improves breathing, heart rate, and relaxation in newborns as they withdraw from opioids they were exposed to during pregnancy. Read […]
Now Accepting Applications for January 2020 Child Health Research Awards Program
The Charles H. Hood Foundation is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the next cycle of the Child Health Research Awards Program. Proposals are due October 7th for funding to begin January 1st, 2020. Hypothesis-driven clinical, basic science, public health, health services research, and epidemiology projects are welcome for consideration. Learn […]
Upcoming Webinar: NICHD Data Resources (8.6.2019)
The Charles H. Hood Foundation is honored to host program staff from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, who will provide an introduction to NICHD’s Data and Specimen Hub (DASH) and other resources. The webinar will be held from 2-3pm (EDT) this coming Tuesday, August 6th. Please note, registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/HoodNICHD8-6-19 […]
July 2019 Child Health Awardees
The Hood Foundation is excited 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: […]
New Research from Talal Chatila, MD, former Hood Child Health Award Recipient
A six-year study co-led by Dr. Talal Chatila, MD, Director of Boston Children’s Food Allergy Program, suggests that introducing “good bacteria” into the human gut may help prevent children from developing food allergies. Congratulations to Dr. Chatila, who received the Hood Foundation’s Child Health Research Award in 1989, and his team! Read more about Dr. […]
1st Annual Hood Awardee Recognition Event
On Monday, June 10th, the Trustees of the Charles H. Hood Foundation hosted the 1st Annual Hood Awardee Recognition Event. Having supported pediatric research in New England for over 77 years, the Hood Foundation is exploring new ways to engage with their growing community of stakeholders and leverage resources to meaningfully impact the field of […]
Child Health Awardee Spotlight: Xiaolei Su, Ph.D.
Dr. Xiaolei Su received one of our five January 2019 Child Health Research Grants. Dr. Su is Assistant Professor of Cell Biology at Yale Cancer Center. He is interested in exploring membrane remodeling and membrane-proximal signal transduction during immune responses, the study of which may also lead to the development of new therapeutic targets and […]
Awardee Spotlight: Kristopher Sarosiek, Ph.D.
Dr. Kristopher Sarosiek is one of the five January 2019 recipients of our very competitive Child Health Research Awards. He is an Assistant Professor of Radiation Biology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where his lab team is working to develop a better understanding of how cell death is regulated in healthy and […]
Awardee Spotlight: Sarita Patil, M.D.
Dr. Sarita Patil received one of our five January 2019 Child Health Research Grants. Dr. Patil is a physician-scientist who specializes in the treatment of patients with food allergy. She serves as Principal Investigator for the Center for Immunology & Inflammatory Diseases and Assistant Physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, as well as an Instructor in […]
Closing the Gap in ADHD Research
UConn Today has posted an article about the important work of current Child Health award recipient Dr. David Martinelli. Read more here.