No matter where in their early career path applicants find themselves, scholars must be committed to a career in OB/GYN and medical research, ready to use the RSDP program as a springboard into the type of deeper and more targeted scientific inquiry their careers will ask of them.
Along with the Agnes Higgins Award, the March of Dimes and Richard B. Johnston, Jr., MD Prize in Developmental Biology is one of two March of Dimes awards to lifetime scholars in the field of maternal fetal health
The March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center (PRC) at Imperial College London, in London, England, was established in 2018, becoming not only the organization’s first international PRC, but a key research powerhouse.
The March of Dimes launched its first PRC at Stanford University in 2011, which became the country’s first transdisciplinary research center dedicated to identifying the causes of premature birth.
The March of Dimes University of California San Francisco Prematurity Research Center, the organization’s newest prematurity research hub, which launched in early 2022, is focused on using big data to gain new insights into diagnostic and therapeutic tools to combat prematurity.
The March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center at the University of Pennsylvania, which launched in 2014, is furthering our understanding of preterm birth through various fundamental research initiatives that span the reproductive, prenatal and neonatal disciplines.