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News Yesterday, we announced the winners of the March of Dimes Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Awards: Dr. Elizabeth Ann L. Enninga and Dr. Mara Murray Horwitz. [...] An Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Immunology, at Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic, Dr. [...] Enninga will study the role of cell free (cf) fetal DNA as a trigger of birth onset. Dr. [...] Murray Horwitz, a primary care physician at Boston Medical Center and an assistant professor and health services researcher at the Boston University School of Medicine, will study barriers to postpartum heart health for women with previous hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP). [...] Read the press release on our award winners. Grants and awards It’s application season at March of Dimes. Earlier this month, we opened the nomination period for the 2025 Agnes Higgins Award in Maternal-Fetal Nutrition. [...] Learn more about the award and download the nomination forms.We also opened the request for applications (RFA) for the Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Awards in February. [...] On May 13 we will open the call for nominations for the March of Dimes Richard B. [...] It closes September 13. Learn more about the Prize and how to apply. [...] In addition to advocating and volunteering with March of Dimes, she raises awareness about the scientiic research at the organization— if only by her sheer passion. [...] Jonas Miller, a former Stanford Prematurity Research Center (PRC) collaborator and current Psychological Sciences Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut, to discuss his indings that a mom’s stress before pregnancy affects her child’s brain function and makes impulse control a little harder.