Cornell researchers are investigating every aspect of mother-infant health from the establishment of a viable embryo to implantation and placental development. The growth and development of the fetus, along with the health of the mother, are all critically dependent on access to good nutrition, as well routine medical evaluations.

Faculty:

Arunika Das: reproductive aging, early pregnancy loss, embryo development
Callum Donnelly: metabolic syndrome effect on fertility and pregnancy
Tamatha Fenster, MD: pelvic surgery, women’s health technology innovation
Alexander Gleed: fetal ultrasound, placenta, ultrasonic tissue characterization, image analysis
Ria Goswami: infectious diseases during pregnancy, vertical transmission, infant immunity development
Cori Green: pediatric mental health integration
Alison Hermann, MD: perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, menopause and mental health, reproductive psychiatry education
Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao: wearable technology, on-skin interfaces, electronic textiles, therapeutic haptics
Matthew Kibbee: evidence synthesis, systematic reviews
Jyoti S. Mathad: maternal infectious diseases (including HIV), gestational diabetes
David S. Matteson: AI, data science, statistics
Kimberly O’Brien: nutrition, pregnancy, placental nutrient trafficking, bone health, anemia, osteoporosis
Lauren M. Osborne, MD: perinatal mood and anxiety disorders
Sallie Permar: congenital infections, maternal vaccination, maternal-infant immunology
Lisa Placanica: intellectual property, commercial partnerships, new venture creation
Michael Podolsky: cell biology of decidual tissues and parturition; molecular regulation of uterine remodeling
John Schimenti: reproductive genetics, placentation, reproductive aging
Abby Snyder: infant feeding, contact tracing, Cronobacter infection
Moeun Son: labor and childbirth, pregnancy
Heidi Stuhlmann: placental development and disease, fetal programming, transposon dysregulation

Centers and Institutes:

PORTENT Center for Point of Care Technologies for Nutrition, Infection and Cancer for Global Health