Methodius Tuuli, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the School of Medicine, received $633,000 of an expected $2.9 million, five-year grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a study on “Prophylactic Negative Pressure Wound Therapy in Obese Women at Cesarean: Multicenter Randomized Trial.” The projects aims to yield high-quality evidence on the effectiveness of such therapy in reducing surgical site infections after a cesarean section in obese women.