Pilot Grants
The mission of the UAB Center for Women’s Reproductive Health (CWRH) is to provide the most up-to-date and effective care to patients, to advance the scientific understanding of women’s health, and to translate this new knowledge into improved diagnoses, treatments, and prevention, as well as educating our future. In pursuit of this mission to innovate and improve women’s reproductive health and consistent with UAB’s strategic plan, CWRH wishes to grow the volume and diversity of extramural funding. To accomplish this, we must maintain and continue to foster additional research funding opportunities.
The purpose of the CWRH Pilot Grant program is to maintain and grow interdisciplinary research opportunities in women’s reproductive health while investing in our faculty and coinvestigators.
2025 Women’s Health Pilot Research Projects
- RFA Released: November 22, 2024
- Application Deadline: February 25, 2025 (midnight CT)
- Awards Announced: March 31, 2025
- Earliest Funding Start: March 31, 2025
To download the Request for Applications and to apply, visit InfoReady, the UAB Office of Research Application Portal: https://uab.infoready4.com/ and search “CWRH 2025”
Awarded
2024
| Grant | Recipient | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| CWRH-UWIRC Pilot Grant | Jeffrey Blount, MD, MPH, Professor | Effectiveness study of novel folic acid fortified iodized salt to increase folate levels in Zambia, a non-fortifying country. |
| CWRH-UWIRC Pilot Grant | Richard Burney, MD, Associate Professor | First quantitative human chorionic gonadotropin measures related to day of blastocyst development at embryo transfer. |
| CWRH-UWIRC Pilot Grant | Mudit Vaid, PhD | Epigenetic variations associated with smoking in pregnant individuals with chronic hypertension. |
2022
| Grant | Recipient | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| CWRH-UWIRC Pilot Grant | Paige Porrett, PhD, MD, Associate Professor | Characterization of Immune Cell Decidualization in Human Endometrium |
| CWRH-UWIRC Pilot Grant | Isuzu Meyer, MD, Associate Professor | Platelet Rich Plasma as an Adjunct Therapy at the time of Transvaginal Native Tissue Prolapse Surgery |
2021
| Grant | Recipient | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| OBGYN Pilot Grant, Division of Urogynecology | Russell Stanley, DO, Fellow | RCT Comparing Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation (PTNS) in Combo w/Mirabegron to PTNS + Placebo |
| OBGYN Pilot Grant, Division of Gynecologic Oncology | Rebecca Arend, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor | WNT/b-catenin signaling axis regulates chemo-induced immune evasion |
| OBGYN Pilot Grant, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility | Ricardo Azziz, MD, Professor | A Novel epigenetic mechanism underlying adipose tissue dysfunction, inflammation, and insulin resistance in PCOS |
| OBGYN Pilot Grant, Division of Maternal and Fetal Medicine | Rachel Sinkey, MD, Associate Professor | Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Biomarkers Among Women With Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy 5 – 10 years Postpartum |
| CWRH-UWIRC Pilot Grant | Jodie Dionne, MD, Associate Professor | A Rational Approach to the Identification of New Treatment Options to Prevent Congenital Syphilis: Pharmacokinetics of High Dose Amoxicillin with and without Probenecid in Pregnant Women |
| CWRH-UWIRC Pilot Grant | William Geisler, MD, MPH, Professor | Prevalence of Mycoplasma genitalium Infection and Resistance in Pregnant Women in UAB OB Clinics |
2020
| Grant | Recipient | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| CWRH-UWIRC and HRC Pilot Grant | Rachel Sinkey, MD, Associate Professor | Validation of a Remote Monitoring Blood Pressure Cuff |
2019
| Grant | Recipient | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| OBGYN Pilot Grant, Division of Women's Reproductive Health | Janeen Arbuckle, MD, Assistant Professor | Menstrual Suppression in the Myelosuppressed: A Retrospective Review |
| OBGYN Pilot Grant, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Services | Jasmine Lee Chiang, MD, Instructor Fellow | Reproductive aging and fertility in an inducible mouse model of mitochondrial |
| OBGYN Pilot Grant, Division of Gynecologic Oncology | Haller Smith, MD, Assistant Professor | Optimizing antibiotic prophylaxis for high-risk patients undergoing gynecologic surgery |
| OBGYN Pilot Grant, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine | Rachel Sinkey, MD, Associate Professor | Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes Following Aortic Valve Replacement |
| OBGYN Pilot Grant, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine | Brian Casey, MD, Professor | Decreased Neuraxial Morphine and Adjunctive Peripheral Nerve Blockade to Reduce Severity of Side Effects and Opioid Use after Cesarean Delivery |
2018
| Grant | Recipient | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| OBGYN Pilot Grant, Division of Gynecologic Oncology | Margaret I. Liang, MD, MSHS, Assistant Professor | The costs that count: ovarian cancer patient perspectives in an era of rapidly changing therapies |
| OBGYN Pilot Grant, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine | Lorie M Harper MD, MSCI, Associate Professor | Data Extraction Validation Application |
| OBGYN Pilot Grant, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine | Akila Subramaniam, MD, MPH, Associate Professor | Evaluation of Nutritional Interventions to Limit Gestational Weight Gain in Women with Class III Obesity (BMI >40) |
| OBGYN Pilot Grant, Division of Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery | Isuzu Meyer MD, Associate Professor | Pelvic floor disorders and Osteoporosis in postmenopausal Women Research |
| OBGYN Pilot Grant, Division of Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery | Kyle P Norris MD, Instructor Fellow | IMPLORE Study: Investigation of Microbiomes of Postmenopausal Women Looking for Outcomes and Response to Estrogen Therapy |
| OBGYN Pilot Grant, Division of Women's Reproductive Healthcare | Tera Howard MD, MPH, Assistant Professor | Factors Associated with Breastfeeding Discontinuation Among Women Who Deliver at a Baby-Friendly Designated Hospital |