Genes Expressed in Placenta May Predict Infant Brain Size and Indicate Future Schizophrenia Risk Scientists at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development (LIBD) and at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine, have found that genetic scoring of schizophrenia-related genes in the placenta can predict the size of a baby’s brain at birth … Read more

Food insecurity affects approximately 12% of Americans daily and with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic this number has increased drastically and has heavily impacted vulnerable populations who are food insecure. Thava Mahadevan and his team have been awarded Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Clinical Scholars COVID-19 Rapid Response Project Funding for their community engaged … Read more