The Hood Foundation is honored 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

In an exciting turn of events, last week’s CureAccelerator Live! for Pediatric Rare Diseases yielded not just one but two winners. Congratulations to Dr. Joyce Teng of Stanford University and Dr. Nancy Gordon of the University of Texas MD Anderson

CH Innovations, the investment arm of the Charles H. Hood Foundation, is excited to welcome Argus Cognitive to its Program Related Investments portfolio. Argus Cognitive develops medical decision support systems to aid clinical diagnosis and therapy choices. Learn more about

Following up from our earlier partnership announcement, we are excited to share that Cures Within Reach has identified the top four finalists for funding under the pediatric-focused CureAccelerator Live! for Rare Diseases 2021 Competition: Ignacia Fuentes, PhD of DEBRA Chile

Congratulations to PRI funding recipient Aldatu Biosciences for making steady progress in their important work to help better understand and control the COVID-19 pandemic. Most recently, the team has developed potentially game-changing technology to improve the tracking of variants. Read

Applications are now being accepted for the next cycle of the Child Health Research Awards Program. Proposals are due March 29th for funding to begin July 1st. Hypothesis-driven clinical, basic science, public health, health services research, and epidemiology projects are

We are thrilled to support the work of Mesentech, Inc. in a new funding collaborative with CureDuchenne Ventures. Together, our PRI funding will support Mesentech’s pediatric-first approach to developing its bone-targeting therapeutic, which can increase bone mass to strengthen the

Sarah Fortune, MD, received a Hood Child Health Award in 2007.  Today, she is Chair of the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and the John LaPorte Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard TH Chan School

Applications are now being accepted for the next cycle of the Child Health Research Awards Program.  Proposals are due September 16th, 2020, for funding to begin January 1st, 2021. Hypothesis-driven clinical, basic science, public health, health services research, and epidemiology

Trudy Morrison, PhD, received a Major Grant award in 2016 for her research on Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV).  Now, in 2020, Dr. Morrison is exploring how her RSV vaccine work may be repurposed to have an impact on COVID-19. Learn