Preterm Birth Initiative

Vikki M. Abrahams, Ph.D.
Yale University
The role of placental Nod-like receptors in infection-associated preterm labor

Julie Baker, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Genomic networks that guide trophoblast invasion and disease

Ronald W. Davis, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Unexplained Preterm birth

Michal Elovitz, M.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Targeting novel pathways in cervical remodeling for predicting prematurity: a combined biomarker and genomics approach

Michael Douglas House, M.D.
Tufts Medical Center
Beyond cervical length: development of a patient-specific model of cervical mechanical function in pregnancy pregnancy

Mala S. Mahendroo, Ph.D.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center-Dallas
Assesment of cervical ripening by sodium magnetic resonance imaging

Jeffrey C. Murray, M.D.
University of Iowa
Genomic signatures of gene expression and alternative splicing in preterm birth

Indira Mysorekar, Ph.D.
Washington University
Occult infections in the etiology of preterm birth

Ignatia Van den Veyver, M.D.
Baylor College of Medicine
Contributions of maternal-fetal mitochondrial genome and microbiome interactions to preterm birth

Carl P. Weiner, M.D., M.B.A.
University of Kansas
Initiator-effector gene sets regulating myometrial contractility during term and preterm labor