Women & Infants Hospital receives $12.2M for women’s reproductive health research

WOMEN & Infants Hospital will receive $11 million in funding over five years through the National Institutes of Health Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence grant program to boost interdisciplinary research related to women’s reproductive health. / COURTESY WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL
WOMEN & Infants Hospital will receive $11 million in funding over five years through the National Institutes of Health Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence grant program to boost interdisciplinary research related to women’s reproductive health. / COURTESY WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL

Updated, 10:10 a.m.

PROVIDENCE – Women & Infants Hospital will receive $12.2 million in funding over five years through the National Institutes of Health Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence grant program to boost research related to women’s reproductive health.

The funding announcement was made Wednesday by U.S. Sens. Jack F. Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and U.S. Reps. James R. Langevin and David N. Cicilline.

Women & Infants will integrate research of investigators working in pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and establish a collaborative research environment to study women’s health conditions.

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Dr. Surendra Sharma, professor of pediatrics at Women & Infants, will serve as principal investigator for the COBRE for Reproductive Health. Much of the research will focus on long-term impacts that pregnancy complications may have on a woman’s health and how complications suffered by a woman during pregnancy can “offer a window into other future adverse health outcomes,” according to a release about the funding award.

“This federal funding will provide researchers with the necessary resources to take on high-priority research objectives that will have lasting effects on women’s health care in Rhode Island and around the world,” Reed said in a statement.

Mark R. Marcantano, president and chief operating officer, Women & Infants Hospital, said the grant represents a “significant opportunity” for the hospital to continue its research and keep it on the radar as a premier research institution worldwide.

“This investment in research is so important because it enables us to continue to recruit and retain the best and the brightest, and to demonstrate that the most advanced techniques and research are born and reside right here at Women & Infants Hospital,” Marcantano said.

Women & Infants, a Care New England hospital, is the ninth largest stand-alone obstetrical service in the country and the largest in New England, with approximately 8,500 deliveries per year.

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