Next Gen Pregnancy Initiative Grants

The Next Gen Pregnancy Initiative, building on the BWF Preterm Birth Initiative, aims to address the complexities of pregnancy, including its duration, fetal growth, and adverse outcomes like preterm birth, preeclampsia, and maternal complications. This grant program has broadened its focus to include impacts of climate change on pregnancy and the role of various factors in pregnancy outcomes. It awards up to $500,000 over four years to stimulate innovative research from individuals and teams in fields such as genetics, genomics, immunology, and engineering, among others. The initiative encourages proposals that seek therapeutic interventions, novel diagnostics, and the development of devices for real-time data monitoring, with a strong interest in the mechanisms behind racial disparities in pregnancy outcomes. Topics for proposals include, but are not limited to, the biomedical causes and molecular mechanisms behind adverse pregnancies, biomarkers for predicting preterm birth, and the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning for Preterm Birth Risk Stratification.