Using state-of-the-art technology such as genomics, proteomics, genetics, imaging and pathology,
Wayne State University’s Perinatology Research Branch (PRB) is developing new diagnostic methods and treatments to prevent adverse pregnancy outcomes.

A few years into a $125 million, 10-year contract with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the School of Medicine houses and supports the PRB, which examines maternal and infant health and disease.Dr. Roberto Romero, chief of the PRB, has established a research agenda that could change the way obstetrics is practiced in the future.

The PRB at Wayne is one of only a few NIH intramural branches located outside of its main campus in Maryland.