# David W. Smith Workshop on Malformations and Morphogenesis

> **NIH NIH R13** · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · 2022 · $10,000

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract:
For the past 40 years, the David W. Smith Workshop on Malformations and Morphogenesis has brought
together dysmorphologists, developmental biologists, embryologists, anatomists, geneticists and others who
work on developing a better understanding of how human malformations occur and their underlying
mechanisms of morphogenesis. The workshops are held annually in celebration of the career of David W.
Smith who was the father of human clinical dysmorphology and first to initiate these meetings. Meetings are
held over 4-5 days in the summer and have an attendance of 120-140 individuals who are selected following
submission of abstracts reviewed by the scientific program committee. Attendance is predicated on having an
abstract accepted for presentation. The workshop is intended to be an interactive exchange and thus is limited
only to those presenting that year. Each year three to five central topics are selected by the organizers. The
selection of topics takes into account when the topic had last been a focus, and the timeliness of the topic
based on new scientific developments and emerging fields. The meetings consist of a workshop format in
which short presentations of hypothesis driven findings are then followed by an intense discussion period.
There are also typically 3-4 plenary sessions presented by internationally recognized experts in the field.
These presentations cover broad topics related to the central topics chosen for the workshop. The meetings
have a long history of wide-ranging and stimulating discussion and have provided an especially important
focus for the development and recruitment of residents, fellows and junior faculty into the field of
morphogenesis, malformation and birth defects research.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10322765
- **Project number:** 5R13HD048170-17
- **Recipient organization:** CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA
- **Principal Investigator:** IAN D. KRANTZ
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $10,000
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2004-08-01 → 2025-12-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10322765

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10322765, David W. Smith Workshop on Malformations and Morphogenesis (5R13HD048170-17). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10322765. Licensed CC0.

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