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Liza Konnikova, MD, PhD, and Etienne Caron, PhD, have received an R01 award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for “PRIME: Placental Immune Response and Impact on Maternal-Infant Health.”

Nicole Lake, PhD, assistant professor of genetics, was awarded an R01 award from the National Human Research Genome Institute, titled “Expanding the genomics toolkit for variant interpretation in the mitochondrial genome.”

A study by Mancy Tong, PhD, assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology & reproductive sciences, and her lab—titled "Preimplantation Exposure to Viral dsRNA Impairs Decidualization Leading to Altered Placental Development and Fetal Growth Restriction"—was named the Perinatal Research Society's Top Basic Science paper.

Yaru Xu, PhD, associate research scientist in urology, received the 2026 Michael O. Koch Research Excellence Award for Early Career Scholars at the Indiana University Genitourinary Cancer Symposium.

Catherine O’Neill Buck, MD, MHS, assistant professor of pediatrics (neonatal-perinatal medicine), is one of five recipients of the September 2026 Child Health Research Awards from the Charles H. Hood Foundation.

Genta Ishikawa, MD, MPH, assistant professor in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine, has been awarded an unrestricted grant award from the American Thoracic Society (ATS).

Aaron Kuan, PhD, professor of neuroscience, wins NIH award and funding to map brain connections with electron microscopy.

This summer, Women’s Health Research at Yale and the Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) joined forces to bring together leaders from academia, government, nonprofit organizations, industry, and media as well as students and women’s health champions, to demonstrate how collaborations can accelerate discoveries into real-world investment.

Collaboration is a core value of Women’s Health Research at Yale. To accelerate impact, Director Basmah Safdar, MD, and the Women’s Health Research at Yale team built a new entity, the Women’s Health Research at Yale Collaborative, to bring that value to life.