Vikki Abrahams, Ph.D.

Vikki Abrahams, Ph.D., assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences, has received a 2009 Albert McKern Scholar Award for Perinatal Research. The two-year award of $100,000 per year will fund her proposal, “Human Endogenous Retroviruses: A Novel Biomarker for Pre-eclampsia.” The award is funded by a bequest from Albert McKern, M.A. ’13, M.D., an Australian who studied engineering at Yale before entering medical school at the University of Edinburgh.