Women & Infants' reproductive endocrinologist Jared Robins, MD, and his team are studying how environmental conditions may affect embryonic development. The results will improve outcomes in infertility treatment by examining the optimal conditions for an embryo to develop, thereby increasing the success of many infertility treatment protocols.

Joseph Bliss, MD, PhD, a neonatologist at Women & Infants, is researching infection in extremely low birth weight newborns with the hopes that his discoveries will improve care not only for these infants but also for immune-compromised children and adults whose susceptibility to these infections may be life threatening.

A team led by Yi-Tang Tseng, PhD, a research scientist in Women & Infants' Department of Pediatrics, has identified the unique mechanisms in fetal life that control cell division during heart development. Using translational science, the team is looking at how overexpression of these mechanisms may induce cardiac repair and regeneration following a myocardial infarction during adult life.

Source: Women & Infants Hospital