Research Facilities

Fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine/Training Program/Research Facilities

• Fellows spend at least 18 months engaged in research and gain considerable experience in the conduction of translational and basic science studies
• There is a strong research emphasis on microbiology, infectious disease, and reproductive immunology
• The program has laboratories focusing on placental pathology, molecular biology, immunology, cytogenetics, and state of the art animal facilities

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Perinatology Research Branch

• The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has a unique collaboration with the Perinatology Research Branch which affords opportunities for the conduction of clinical and/or basic science research

C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development

• A research facility dedicated to laboratories conducting research in Obstetrics and Gynecology
• The primary mission of the Mott Center is to foster basic and translational research on reproduction and development
• Houses the following:
• • Scientists from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • The laboratories of the Perinatology Research Branch
  • The Implantation Laboratory of the Reproductive Biology and Medicine Branch, NICHD Intramural Research Division
  • The Wayne State University Genomics Facility, a Bioinformatics Center and a Systems Biology section
  • A large vivariam
• The C.S. Mott Center also houses facilities for behavioral testing