The Center for Women’s Reproductive Health (CWRH) is excited to announce the recipients of their University-Wide Interdisciplinary Center pilot grant program.

Those that will be receiving the grant are Dr. William Geisler, Professor of Medicine in the Division Infectious Diseases, in collaboration with Drs. Akila Subramaniam, Assistant Professor in the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine in the Department of OB/GYN; Barbara Van Der Pol, Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases; Li Xiao Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology; and Jodie Dionne-Odom, Assistant Professor of Medicine, in the Division of Infectious Diseases. They will be receiving this award for their project “Prevalence of Mycoplasma genitalium Infection and Resistance in Pregnant Women in UAB OB Clinics.”

The overall goal of the CWRH is to foster interdisciplinary collaborations across UAB campus to improve women’s reproductive health (RH) and survival. The mission is to conduct research aimed at improving the RH and wellbeing of all women and their offspring, especially minority and under-served (including those in rural Alabama). It is also to facilitate collaboration between UAB researchers and developing scholars interested in women's RH. To accomplish their goals, the CWRH must maintain and continue to foster research funding opportunities while investing in their investigators and trainees and their affiliated divisions, departments, and schools. The highly competitive applications were evaluated by CWRH members with collective expertise in basic science, clinical research, and public health applying NIH criteria.

Congratulations to Drs. Geisler, Subramaniam, Van Der Pol, Xiao, and Dionne-Odom!