Women & Infants Hospital researcher awarded $2.8M grant for perinatal brain injury research

DR. BARBARA STONESTREET, a neonatal-perinatal specialist at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, has received a five-year, nearly $2.8 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for her research into determining ways to treat perinatal brain injury in full-term and premature infants. / COURTESY WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL
DR. BARBARA STONESTREET, a neonatal-perinatal specialist at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, has received a five-year, nearly $2.8 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for her research into determining ways to treat perinatal brain injury in full-term and premature infants. / COURTESY WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL

PROVIDENCE – A neonatal-perinatal specialist at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island has received a five-year, nearly $2.8 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for her research into determining ways to treat perinatal brain injury in full-term and premature infants.
This is the latest grant award that Dr. Barbara Stonestreet has received in recent weeks.
Just last month, Stonestreet received two, two-year grants totaling $881,100 from the National Institutes of Health for this research.
“We are looking at a novel approach to prevent and treat perinatal brain injury by targeting brain blood vessels with antibodies to preserve their function, to protect the brain and to improve outcomes. This study has significant translational potential to provide new insights into novel therapies to prevent brain injury in the human fetus and/or premature and full-term infant,” she said in a statement.
Perinatal brain injury often results in severe developmental disabilities, including neurodevelopmental delay and cerebral palsy. Those disabilities can place a lifelong burden on parents and society, according to a news release from Women & Infants, a Care New England hospital.
Stonestreet also is a professor of pediatrics at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

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