Please join us in congratulating the Hood Foundation’s most recent cohort of 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. Commendations to each of the following on having been selected for funding from a highly competitive group of peers (click names for more information):
- Karmel Choi, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor of Psychology at Massachusetts General Hospital
- Evaluating Effective Combinations of Modifiable Factors for Preventing Youth Depression Risk
- Jeeyun Chung, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University
- Targeting Lipid Dysregulation in Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
- Emilia Favuzzi, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Yale University
- Impact of Early Life Immune Challenges on Brain Wiring
- Judith Kempfle, M.D. – Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
- Characterization of Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Neurofibromatosis Type 2
- Novalia Pishesha, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital
- Nanobody-based Immunotherapy for Modulating Inflammation in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Learn more about these Awardees and the Hood Foundation’s research grant programs here.
