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Poor nutrition is devastating the health of American families. A prescription produce program, from Tufts Medicine’s Mother Infant Research Institute and the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, is delivering nutritious foods and a healthy start to Massachusetts families.

Dr. Sebastian Ramos of Obstetrics and Gynecology has been promoted to Principal Investigator at MIRI.

Study Examines the paternal role in intergenerational impacts of stress.

Dr. Sebastian Ramos presented at the annual BIRCWH 2023 Annual Meeting on December 5, 2023.

The MIRI was very well represented at the annual Perinatal Research Society Annual Meeting Utah from September 29-October 1, in the beautiful setting of Park City.

A new, three-year NIH grant will expand Dr. Elizabeth Yen's research and initial pilot study findings about the effects of prenatal opioid exposure in an infant's first year of life.

Tufts Medicine announced today that Perrie O'Tierney-Ginn, PhD, has been named the permanent Executive Director of the Mother Infant Research Institute (MIRI) at Tufts Medical Center. She had served as the Interim Executive Director of MIRI since September 2021.

Dr. Perrie O’Tierney-Ginn receives Liley Lectureship at 2023 PAS Meeting.

Taysir Mahmoud holds the newly created position of Supervisor of Clinical and Translational Research in MIRI, OB/Gyn and Pediatrics to accomplish that task.

In order to further strengthen the connection between the MIRI and investigators involved in complementary work across Tufts Medicine and Tufts University, MIRI created the role of "Associate PI."

MIRI PI Patrick Catalano, MD, has been awarded an R21 from the NIH/NICHD as Multi-Site PI for a two-year study entitled, “Impact of a Postpartum Lifestyle Intervention on Lactation Outcomes, Breastmilk Composition and Infant Growth.”

Michael House, MD, has been recognized as an expert in the uterine cervix, has received an SMFM/ABOG Bridge Grant entitled “Novel tools for studying cervical function and dysfunction during pregnancy.”

MIRI publication receives APS Key Distinction.

MIRI researchers are now able to identify genes affecting abnormal feeding habits in newborns who were prenatally exposed to opioids.

MIRI PI Dr. Michael House mentored Dr. Jean Hostage, who received the Best Maternal Fetal Medicine Presentation To a Person in Training award.

MIRI PI Dr. Yen receives TISUA Award.

MIRI PI Dr. Michael House and his team members received a COVID-19 Rapid Response SeeD Funding Grant. This new funding program is intended to fast track innovative research proposals that directly address the urgent needs of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Tomoko Kaneko-Tarui of MIRI gets Charlton Award.

Fernanda Alvarado, PhD, MIRI post-doc, completes CTSI Blue Star Investigator Certificate Program.

Dr. Patrick Catalano, who has expertise in lifestyle interventions to reduce gestational weight gain among women with overweight or obesity, was an author in the paper “A telehealth lifestyle intervention to reduce excess gestational weight gain in pregnant women with overweight or obesity (GLOW): a randomised, parallel-group, controlled.”