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Appendix E Selected Programs Funding Preterm Birth Research
Appendix E Selected Programs Funding Preterm Birth Research
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E Selected Programs Funding Preterm Birth Research On August 10, 2005, the Institute of Medicine Committee on Understanding Premature Birth and Assuring Healthy Outcomes hosted a workshop on barriers to research on preterm birth (see Chapter 13 for discussion)
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726 PRETERM BIRTH and its consequences from the general category is not possible with the information currently available from NIH. Between FYs 2000 and 2004, funding in the category prenatal birthpreterm low birth weight increased from $306.5 million to $393 million in grants, contracts, and intramural research.
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727 APPENDIX E brane rupture and amniotic fluid regulation; and the cervix, which involves research on cervical ripening. For the first category, the PPB funded 15 grants, including 1 F32 grant for postdoctoral research training, 2 K08 mentored career development awards, 3 R03 small research grants, 8 R01 grants, and 1 R01 supplemental grant.
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728 PRETERM BIRTH reduced the incidence of recurrent preterm birth and improved the neonatal outcome for pregnancies at risk because of a previous preterm delivery. Neonatal Research Network Studies In the area of research on infants born preterm, notable studies included a surfactant trial that showed that lung surfactant prevents respiratory distress syndrome and an ongoing follow-up study of extremely-lowbirth-weight infants.
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729 APPENDIX E In 2005, PPB supported two P01 grants relevant to research on preterm birth. One is entitled Initiation of Human Labor: Prevention of Prematurity.
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730 PRETERM BIRTH Another project is investigating whether providing 17-hydroxyprogesterone caproate to women with a history of spontaneous preterm birth seen in the context of routine prenatal care will result in a significant reduction in the rate of preterm birth. MARCH OF DIMES MOD receives between 800 and 900 letters of intent for requests for research funding.
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731 APPENDIX E BURROUGHS WELLCOME FUND The mission of BWF is to advance the medical sciences through the support of research and education by providing grants totaling $25 million to $35 million per year. Its major strategy is to invest in people, particularly young scientists working in undervalued or underfunded areas of research.
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