2025 Eleanor Wood-Prince Grants

In 2025, more than $500,000 was awarded to fund 13 grants at Northwestern Medicine. The research projects include:

• Telehealth Physical Therapy as a Fall Screening and Risk Reduction Intervention in the Geriatric Population.
• Investigating oxygen-linked mannosylation pathways in injured renal proximal tubule epithelial cells.
• Expanding Family-Centered Care: A Pilot Study Introducing Child Life Services into Adult Healthcare Units at Northwestern Medicine.
• Investigating Differences in the Genitourinary Microbiome and Sexual Function After Exposure to Chlorhexidine Surgical Prep Prior to Midurethral Sling Operation for Stress Urinary Incontinence.
• The Improving Black Maternal Health Open House.
• The BRONCH-SMART Study: Making Robotic-assisted BRONCHoscopy SMARTer via Utilization of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
• Oxytocin system function and birth outcomes for persons with and without obesity.
• Enhancing Recurrent UTI Management Through Home-Based AI-Enabled Urinary Monitoring.
• Development of a Comprehensive Health Program for Patients who use Substances at NMH.
• An AI powered application to enhance evidence-based Physical Exam education.
• Optimizing Rapid Response Team Identification and Care for Patients with Clinical Deterioration at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
• Beyond BMI: Towards improving cardiac surgical outcomes.
• Enhancing Access to Endocrine Surgical Care through Advanced Practice Provider Training in Thyroid Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy.