March of Dimes Foundation: General Research (birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality) - LOI

supports research in the following five priorities: Major challenges of premature babies: Necrotizing Enterocolitis, Respiratory Distress Syndrome, and Retinopathy of Prematurity; Biological mechanisms underlying the high incidence of preterm birth in African American women; Genome targeted therapeutics to treat birth defects; Effect of anesthesia in the late fetus or newborn on neurologic development; Preventing and treating chromosomal and structural abnormalities.

Funding: not specified, duration: 3 years.

http://www.marchofdimes.org/research/research-grants.aspx