Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Active Research Awards

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Aagaard, Kjersti (PI) Metformin in Pregnancy: Fetal Consequences & Long-term Offspring Outcomes in a NHP Model, 2021- 2026, Primary Award Recipient

Aagaard, Kjersti (PI) Conserved Fetal Epigenomic and Metagenomic Signatures in a Primate Model of Maternal Obesity, 2012 – 2022, Primary Award Recipient

Aagaard, Kjersti (Sub PI) Medical Optimization & Management of Pregnancies with Overt Type 2 Diabetes (MOMPOD), 2018 – 2022, Subaward Recipient

Aagaard, Kjersti (Sub PI) Antihypertensive Therapy for Mild Chronic Hypertension during Pregnancy – A Pragmatic Multicenter Randomized Trial (CHAP), 2015 – 2020, Subaward Recipient

Aagaard, Kjersti (PI) Source and Sink of the Placental Microbiota, 2017 – 2022, Primary Award Recipient

Aagaard, Kjersti (PI) Impact of Hurricane Harvey on the Maternal and Infant Microbiome and Birth Outcomes, 2018 – 2021, Primary Award Recipient

Aagaard, Kjersti (Sub PI) Interrupting the Vicious Cycle of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome, 2015 – 2021, Subaward Recipient

Aagaard, Kjersti (PI) Longitudinal Neural Imaging and Functional Resilience After Hurricane Harvey, 2020 – 2021, Primary Award Recipient

Aagaard, Kjersti (Project Lead) Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Ultrasensitive Detection, Early Life Exposures-clinical Outcomes (Preterm Births, Chronic Lung Disease, And Neurocognitive Deficits), Prevention and Remediation, Project 2, 2020 – 2021,

Aagaard, Kjersti (Co-Lead) Maternal and Infant Environmental Health Riskscape (MIEHR) Research Center, Projects 1 and 2, 2020 – 2025,

Aagaard, Kjersti (Program Lead) Medical Scientist Training Program at Baylor College of Medicine, 1977 – 2025, Primary Award Recipient

Aagaard, Kjersti (Sub PI) The Impact of Gastric Bypass on Maternal and Offspring Metabolic Health, 2020 – 2025, Subaward Recipient

Belfort, Michael (PI) Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's WRHR Center of Excellence,  2020 –2025, Primary Award Recipient

Chauhan, Madhulata Reproductive Phenotype of Adrenomedullin2 (Adm2) Knockout Mice, 2020 – 2022, Primary Award Recipient

Eppes, Carey (PI) Maternal Opioid Misuse (MOM) Model, DHHS/Harris Heath, 2020 – 2024, Primary Award Recipient

Espinoza, Jimmy (Sub PI) Uterine Wall-Membrane Anchor Device for the Prevention of Preterm Premature Rupture of the Membranes Following Fetoscopic Surgery, 2019 – 2021, Subaward Recipient

Espinoza, Jimmy (PI) Identification And Validation Of A Cut-off For The Ratio Of Soluble Fms-like Tyrosine Kinase-1 To Placental Growth Factor (Sflt-1/Plgf) To Stratify Risk In Pregnant Women With Hypertensive Disorders Of Pregnancy (PRAECIS), 2019 - present, Primary Award Recipient

Hakim, Julie (PI) Resorbable, Shape Memory Stents to Prevent Vaginal Fibrosis, 2022 –2023, Subaward Recipient

Hakim, Julie (PI) Hormones and Mechanotherapeutics: Restoring Altered Hyaluranan Biology in Mucosal Wound Healing Using Vaginal Tissue as a Model, 2019 – 2024, Primary Award Recipient,

Hakim, Julie (Sub PI) Improving Repair of Female Congenital and Reproductive Anomalies, 2019 – 2021, Primary Award Recipient,

Kebodeaux, Chelsea (PI) & Adeyemi- Fowode, Oluyemisi (Co-PI/ Mentor) Alternate Day Versus Daily Oral Iron Therapy in Adolescents with Iron Deficiency Anemia and Heavy Menstrual Bleeding: A Randomized Clinical Trial, Foundation For Women & Girls With Blood Disorders, 2020 – 2021

Lee, Wesley (PI) 3D Umbilical Venous Blood Flow- A New Paradigm for Improving the Assessment of Fetal Growth Restriction, 2019 – 2024, Primary Award Recipient

Orejuela, Francisco (PI) A Phase 2 Clinical Study of the Materna Device to Shorten Delivery Time during Childbirth, 2018 – 2021, Subaward Recipient

Puryear, Lucy (PI) Baylor College of Medicine, RFA; Addressing Inequitable Health Outcomes Affecting Underrepresented Minorities. “It Takes a Village: A Project to Reach Mothers in Need.” 2020 – 2021, Primary Award Recipient

Sangi-Haghpeykar, Haleh (Co-I) Long Term Consequences of Spaceflight on Brain and Eye, National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NASA Human Research Program), 2021 – 2023

Sharif, Momal (PI) The Lalor Foundation, Inc., 2021 –2022, Primary Award Recipient 

Sharif, Momal (PI) & Van den Veyver, Ignatia (Mentor) Characterization of Oocyte, Embryonic and Placental Defects Caused By Maternal Loss of Nlrp2, Lalor Foundation, 2021 – 2022

Smith, Peggy (PI) and Miriam Chacko (Co-PI) Baylor College of Medicine, RFA; Addressing Inequitable Health Outcomes Affecting Underrepresented Minorities. “Technological determinants of health: Factors associated with equitable utilization among minority Adolescents and Young Adults receiving sexual health services.”, 2020 –2021, Primary Award Recipient

Suter, Melissa (Co-I) Core A: Administrative and Research Translation Core (ARTC), 2020 – 2025

Van den Veyver, Ignatia (PI) Characterization of the Role of Maternal Effect Gene NLRP2 in Reproduction, 2018 – 2023, Primary Award Recipient

Van den Veyver, Ignatia (Sub PI) Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis by Genomic Sequencing: A Prospective Evaluation, 2018 – 2023, Subaward Recipient

Van den Veyver, Ignatia (Sub PI) Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis by Genomic Sequencing: A Prospective Evaluation, 2019 – 2023, Subaward Recipient

Van den Veyver, Ignatia (PI) The Role of NLRP7 and KHDC3L in Germline Imprinting and Embryonic Reprogramming, 2015 – 2022, Primary Award Recipient

Van den Veyver, Ignatia (PI) The Clinical Translational Research Certificate of Added Qualification Program, 2020 – 2025, Primary Award Recipient

Yallampalli, Chandrasekhar (PI) Mechanisms for Sex Differences in Metabolic Programming, 2018 – 2022, Primary Award Recipient

Yallampalli, Chandrasekhar (PI) Sex Steroid Hormones and Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide, 2019 – 2022, Primary Award Recipient,

Yallampalli, Chandrasekhar (PI) Adrenomedullin, Diabetes and Pregnancy, 2017 – 2020, Primary Award Recipient

Yallampalli, Chandrasekhar (PI) Predisposition to Preeclampsia By Complotype- Understanding Contribution From Genetic Variations In Maternal and Fetal Complement Genes, Preeclampsia Foundation, 2021 – 2021, Primary Award Recipient

Yallampalli, Chandrasekhar & Fox, Karin (Multi-Pis) Molecular and Vascular MRI of Placenta Accreta, 2019 – 2023