Grand Challenge Grant Awarded to Team Led by Nationwide Children’s Researcher
Nationwide Children's HospitalThe Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital is one of the four institutions awarded transition-to-scale grants (up to $2 million for four years) for the development of a low-cost paper-based urine test for early diagnosis of preeclampsia to reduce preeclampsia-related morbidity and mortality in resource-limited areas. This project is a multidisciplinary team effort led by Irina Buhimschi, MD, director of the Center for Perinatal Research at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s and a professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.