Alumna Receives Top Epidemiology Award.
Rose Radin (‘14) has received the Lilienfeld Postdoctoral Prize Paper Award from the Society for Epidemiology Research (SER).
Her paper, titled “Sex Ratio Following Preconception Low-Dose Aspirin in Women with Prior Pregnancy Loss,” was published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation last year.
Radin is a postdoctoral fellow in the epidemiology branch of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the NIH. She is a former BU Reproductive, Perinatal, and Pediatric Epidemiology (BURPPE) Program trainee, and studies the effects of maternal metabolic risk factors and inflammation on fertility and pregnancy outcomes.
The Lilienfeld Postdoctoral Prize Paper Award recognizes outstanding postdoctoral research in epidemiology. The Lilienfeld award previously recognized doctoral dissertation research, and was awarded to Associate Professor of Epidemiology Matthew Fox (’07) and Assistant Professors of Epidemiology Samantha Parker (’14) and Jaime Gradus (’09).
Radin’s paper reports maternal preconception inflammation appears to reduce the proportion of males at birth, and preconception low dose aspirin returns the proportion to normal.
“It is so gratifying to receive this recognition,” Radin says, noting the findings are the result of “a tremendous effort” from investigators at NICHD, the University of Utah, the University at Buffalo, the Commonwealth Medical College, and the University of Colorado.
The Lilienfeld Postdoctoral Prize Paper Award is sponsored by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and includes travel funds reimbursement up to $2,000. Radin also presented at SER’s Business Meeting during the Epidemiology Congress of the Americas 2016 conference in Miami on June 24.
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