COVID-19 Information Pay My Bill Careers Donate My Health Record +1 (401) 227-3669 Research at Women & Infants View All Women & Infants Research Studies One of the nation’s largest and most prestigious research facilities Women & Infants Hospital is one of the nation’s largest and most prestigious research facilities in high risk and normal obstetrics, gynecology and newborn pediatrics. In 2015, the NICHD awarded Women & Infants Hospital and Brown University an additional five years of grant funding to support the Women’s Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Career Development Program. With just seven active sites throughout the country, this highly competitive program provides a tailored research and career development plan to enable junior faculty obstetrician/gynecologists to develop into leaders in women’s health research. Women & Infants’ researchers have received grant funding from hundreds of agencies and foundations, including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Genentech, Janssen, Tesaro, the National Institutes of Health, the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, the Rhode Island Foundation, and the Society of Family Planning. View All Women & Infants Research Studies Women & Infants with Brown University is: A National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center of Biomedical Research Excellence for Perinatal Biology, the only one in the nation focused specifically on developmental research A member of NRG Oncology, a National Cancer Institute funded, multi-institutional, cooperative research group with a major focus on gynecologic and breast cancer treatment A member of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Maternal Fetal Medicine Units Network, a consortium of 12 premier clinical centers across the U.S. whose charge is to investigate problems in clinical obstetrics A member of the 18-center NICHD Neonatal Research Network, investigating the safety and efficacy of treatment and management strategies to improve the outcome of sick newborns A member of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD Pelvic Floor Disorders Network, conducting multi-centered trials studying pelvic floor disorders Our Research Departments Neonatal Research Network The NRN has conducted multiple important clinical trials which have improved the outcomes of sick newborns and changed how neonatologists care for their patients Learn More Neonatal Follow Up Program Investigators at Women & Infants’ Neonatal Follow-Up Program are active participants in single-center and multicenter clinical research studies Learn More The Brown Center Research The Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk was established at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Women & Infants Hospital in 2005 Learn More Medical Screening & Special Testing Research The Division of Medical Screening and Special Testing conducts multiple research studies related to prenatal screening, pregnancy health, female infertility and women’s cancers Learn More Urogynecology Research The Division of Urogynecology has many active research studies for pelvic floor disorders, including urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, and bowel incontinence Learn More Obstetrics & Gynecology Research Women & Infants Hospital is one of 21 centers that make up the Contraceptive Clinical Trials Network (CCTN) Learn More OBGYN Division of Research Maternal Fetal Medicine Research Brown/Women & Infants Hospital is one of 12 university-based clinical centers that make up the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development MFMU Network Learn More Oncology Research The Research Program in Women’s Oncology at Women & Infants Hospital is a nationally recognized leader in gynecologic and breast cancer clinical trials Learn More Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute at Brown University The Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute aims to improve the lives of children and their families in Rhode Island through cutting-edge research, clinical practice, public health efforts, and training for future child health leaders. Our longitudinal birth cohort study, known as the Hassenfeld Study, based at Women & Infants Hospital provides a framework for maternal and child health research across several important areas, including social determinants of health, gestational diabetes, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and more. Learn More Women & Infants Institutional Review Board Women & Infants’ Institutional Review Board (IRB) is a committee established to review and approve research involving human subjects. The purpose of the IRB is to protect the rights and welfare of human research subjects and to ensure that all human subject research be conducted in accordance with federal, state, institutional, and ethical guidelines. To access the IRB Meeting Dates and Deadlines, go to the IRBNet WIH Forms and Templates library. Learn More About The Women & Infants Institutional Review Board Kilguss Research Institute The Kilguss Research Institute is home to the Center for Perinatal Biology (CPB). CPB started as an NIH-funded Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE). It is now a self-supported center doing advanced research on fetal development and reproductive medicine. CPB provides scientific and career mentorship to junior faculty within an environment that fosters creativity and transdisciplinary collaboration. CPB's cadre of renowned and emerging scientists is making important breakthroughs in improving the health of newborns and mothers. Learn More About Kilguss Research Institute Fertility Research at Women & Infants Fertility Center All of our providers are also on staff at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. In addition to seeing patients, our physicians prioritize their research work. Not only are they the authors of numerous studies related to fertility, they have also played historic roles in the development of reproductive medicine, such as delivering the first baby conceived through donor embryo transplant. Many of our physicians also work across disciplines to develop useful tools based on their research, such as apps and medical devices. Learn More Women & Infants Fertility Center is part of Women & Infants Hospital, one of the country’s most prestigious research hospitals for obstetrics, gynecology, and newborn pediatrics. Our Latest Research Studies Explore the latest research from Women & Infants with Brown University. Click Here to view all of our research. The MUSA Trial: Therapy for Mixed Urinary Incontinence Read More BamBam-3D Read More Wellness for Two: Nurturing the Wellbeing of Mom and Baby (Closed) Read More Clinical vs Science Research What is clinical research? Clinical research, which involves clinical trials and other research protocols, are strictly controlled human studies of new and emerging therapies. This type of research involves real people participating in studies that are done to test whether a new drug, a new prevention strategy, or a new screening test is safe and effective in people. Clinical research allows doctors from various disciplines to evaluate new forms of treatment, how best to apply recent developments in medicine, and to ensure that patients have the opportunity to receive the latest state-of-the-art care. Clinical trials and clinical research at Care New England must first be approved by an Institutional Review Board, which includes doctors, administrators, ethicists and members of the general public. Volunteers are fully informed of possible risks and sign a consent form before being accepted into a clinical trial. What is basic science research? Basic science research is conducted to help doctors better understand what causes a disease, to analyze how current treatments work, and to develop potential new therapies. Basic science research is done in laboratories using beakers and test tubes, not people. Investigators look at the micro - the cellular and molecular level of life - to better understand the macro, such as diseases and disorders. While the implications for discoveries in basic research are sometimes unknown, discoveries by basic science researchers become the foundation for important breakthroughs in medical treatments and diagnostic technologies. 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