February 11, 2008 Medical News Today—Hui-Ju Tsai, MPH, PhD, is one of ten recipients awarded by the March of Dimes Foundation in 2008. These individuals are trying to stem the growing pace of preterm birth by studying the role genes and heredity play in premature births and how the rate of fetal lung development, infection and other factors may trigger labor. Tsai is seeking to explain ethnic disparities in preterm birth rates by looking for genetic differences between African American women who gave birth preterm and those who did not. She is assistant professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and a member of the Mary Ann & J. Milburn Smith Child Health Research Program of Children's Memorial Research Center. The March of Dimes is the leading nonprofit organization for pregnancy and baby health. With chapters nationwide and its premier event, March for Babies, the March of Dimes works to improve the health of babies. For the full story, go to http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/96851.php.

 

Kathryn N. Farrow, MD, PhD, a neonatologist at Children’s Memorial Hospital, has been awarded the 2008 Richard D. Rowe Award in Perinatal Cardiology from the Society for Pediatric Research. The award will be presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies’ meeting in Hawaii in May. The Rowe Award was established in 1988 by colleagues, trainees and friends of Dr. Rowe to honor his many personal achievements, commitment to academic excellence, integrity and humility. All members of the selection committee agreed that Farrow’s nomination was clearly superior and embodied the intent of the Rowe Award, which is to honor Dr. Rowe by acknowledging the best and brightest young academicians in the field of perinatal cardiovascular biology. Farrow is assistant professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, an attending physician in the Division of Neonatology at Children’s Memorial Hospital and an associate member affiliated with the Molecular and Cellular Pathobiology Program of Children's Memorial Research Center.