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Forward Thinking
One question leads to another as physician-scientists pursue research that advances knowledge and enhances care.
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Dr. Daniel Rubens: Listening to a Hunch
Dr. Daniel Rubens follows his intuition and opens a new door that may reveal a secret to SIDS.
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Dr. Phillip Chance and the Neurogenetics Laboratory: Perseverance in Progress
Dr. Chance’s laboratory, known as the Neurogenetics Laboratory, is comprised of multiple scientists dedicated to genetic research focused on neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders. This spring his laboratory’s steady efforts paid off with one significant discovery ready for publication and another project poised on the verge of perceptible progress.
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Dr. Dimitri Christakis: Harnessing Technology for the Benefit of Children and Their Families
Dr. Dimitri Christakis studies the complex relationship between technology and children. What he has to say about the matter may surprise you.
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Dr. Troy Torgerson: Understanding Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Diseases From the Gene Up
What is the role of regulatory T-cells within the context of immunodeficiency and autoimmune disease? How does a T-cell send information and regulate other T-cells? Dr. Troy Torgerson seeks these answers as he studies the FOXP3 gene and directs the Immunodeficiency Molecular Diagnostics (IMD) lab.
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GBS and Innate Immunity: Dr. Amanda Jones Works Protect Those Most Vulnerable
Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is potentially deadly to premature babies and neonates. Moreover, if a child survives GBS, it may suffer from long term problems. To prevent this, Dr. Amanda Jones’s laboratory is focused on the pathogenesis of GBS.
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Dr. Charles Cowan: Finding Clinical Pathways to Standardize and Improve Quality of Care
One key component of Children’s Hospital strategy to become the best is to build programs that set national standards for quality of care. A way to reach this vision is through the standardization of care processes to assure best practice.
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Dr. Sihoun Hahn Joins the Research Faculty at Children’s
Following his many years of successful research of Wilson’s Disease, Dr. Hahn will be furthering his research on mitochondrial disorders here at Children’s Hospital.
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Craniosynostosis Collaboration with Dr. Matt Speltz
There appears to be some relationship between craniosynostosis and neurodevelopment, but the nature of that relationship is currently unknown. Dr. Matthew Speltz hopes to find the answer to that relationship.
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Dietary Change May Not Be Effective for Obese Children
Dr. Saelens is among the few researchers to conduct peer-reviewed studies that begin to assess weight control treatment efficacy for children.
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Neurodevelopmental/Birth Defects Research: More Than Just Brain Development
Neurodevelopmental research spans from investigation of gene control of prenatal brain development to the creation of quality of life measures for children with neurodevelopmental disorders.
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Predicting the Outcome of Chemotherapy in Children
Janet F. Eary, MD and Ernest U. Conrad, MD anticipate funding for research that will focus on the pediatric and young adult population of patients with Ewings Sarcoma Family of Tumors (ESFT) and osteosarcoma, or bone tumors.
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Repairing Defective Genes
Dr. Andrew Scharenberg is working on an innovative approach to gene therapy called gene repair in which proteins will cut defective sequences of DNA within a gene and cause them to be replaced with corrected sequences.
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Defending the Body Against Viruses
Dr. Janet Englund is one of the nation's leading authorities on influenza and children.
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Which Behaviors Hurt Us, Which Help
On the road to a healthy future, information can be the best medicine. That's the premise behind health outcomes research and the work of Dr. Dimitri Christakis.
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Asking Nursing Questions
There's an art to nursing, but its most basic skills — observing, listening and asking questions — are also the foundation of scientific inquiry.
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Understanding Immune Responses for Hemophilia
Dr. Miao was granted an award which will fund her study of the modulation of immune responses for hemophilia following replacement therapy.
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Tissue Response to Injury
Dr. Allison Eddy, division chief Pediatric Nephrology, investigates how normal kidney tissue is destroyed by fibrosis in response to injury.
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Intervening for Children at Risk of Depression
Dr. McCauley's research has helped establish the study of adolescent depression as a discipline and change how depression in children is understood and treated.
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Correcting Genetic Defects Through Gene Therapy
Dr. Rawlings is looking for ways to correct primary immune deficiency diseases (PIDD).
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Combating Viral Infection After Bone Marrow Transplant
Dr. Danielle Zerr visits Jordan Keen four days after his stem cell transplant to fight acute lymphocytic leukemia.
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Research Seeks Cure For Primary Immune Deficiency Diseases
Dr. Hans Ochs is looking at the connection between immune deficiencies and genes.
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