Honors and Grants

William Grobman, Obstetrics and Gynecology, was elected to the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society Council at the AGOS annual meeting and was named editor-in-chief of Pregnancy, the new scientific journal of the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine.

Jill L. Maron, Pediatrics, was the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Neonatal Perinatal Medicine Gerald Merenstein Lecturer at the AAP national conference, where she presented “Big Data, Big Challenges: Navigating the Landscape and Landmines of Neonatal Genomic Sequencing.”

Meena Theva, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women & Infants Hospital, was recognized at the Rhode Island Medical Society Convivium with a 4 Under 40 Award on September 26, 2024.This award program is designed to recognize four physicians under the age of 40 who practice in Rhode Island that demonstrate and exemplify commitment to their profession.

Methodius Tuuli, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women & Infants Hospital, received the DAIP (Diversity and Inclusion Professionals) 2024 Linda Holmes Newton Legacy Award Winner for impactful work in maternal health.

Ahmed Abdelfattah, Neuroscience, received $818,503 for “Optimizing FACED for robust large-scale activity recording.” The grant is a subaward through the University of California, Berkeley from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.      

Peter A. Belenky, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology (MMI), received $340,449 for “Alleviating antibiotic-induced microbiome dysfunction by quenching the microbial redox environment” from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. 

Beth Cronin, obstetrics and gynecology, received the 2024 Constance A. Howes Women’s Health Innovation Research Fund Grant for her project “Topical Estrogen: Brief Intervention to Improve Postoperative Experience for Transgender Men Undergoing Hysterectomy.”   

Michelle Dawson, Molecular, Cellular Biology and Biochemistry (MCB), received $50,000 for “Senescence-Associated Modifications in the Fibrotic Lung Niche for Breast Cancer Metastasis” through Rhode Island Hospital.                       

Alexander Fleischmann, Neuroscience, received $81,417 for “Investigation of impaired neural stem cell activation in Alzheimer's Disease.” The grant is a subaward through the Buck Institute for Research on Aging from the National Institute on Aging . He also received $380,376 for “Convergence of behavioral and sensory information in olfactory cortex” from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.                                    

Stephanie R. Jones, Neuroscience, received $158,667 for “Neurobiology and Cognitive Functions of Slow brain Network Fluctuations.” The grant is a subaward through the Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc from the National Institute of Mental Health. 

Caroline Keroack, postdoc in MMI, received $229,932 for “Defining the molecular mediators of cell morphogenesis in Trypanosoma cruzi” from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Sponsor is Christopher de Graffenried.                            

Judy Kimberly, Evaluation Director, received $26,923 for “Evaluation of RI-INBRE Program.” The grant is a subaward through the University of Rhode Island from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.             

Sharon I. Rounds, Medicine and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, received $1.56 million for Advance Clinical and Translational Research (Advance -CTR) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

Melissa Russo and Methodius Tuuli, co-PIs, Obstetrics and Gynecology, received $3.52 million for “A Randomized Trial of Chatbot for Prenatal Genetic Counseling” from the National Institutes of Health.