Advances in Research

Investigators at Children's Research Institute strive to enhance the field of pediatric research. 

Treatment of Infantile Hemangiomas
A unique, interdisciplinary, and multi-institutional study looking at the increased incidence of hemangiomas in relation to the increase in the rate of low birth weight infants in the United States. The study will look at infants diagnosed with large, complicated hemangiomas to determine and compare the effectiveness and safety of steroids in the current standard of care with a drug currently used for cancer. Other research sites include the University of California-San Francisco and Indiana University.

Children's Research Institute, Marquette University, UW-Milwaukee create nursing research consortium
Children's Research Institute, Marquette University College of Nursing and UW-Milwaukee School of Nursing have signed a three-year agreement to launch the Consortium for Pediatric Nursing Research (CPNR). The consortium will link these three institutions to enhance the quality of nursing research.

Children's Research Institute and Medical College of Wisconsin establish national pediatric kidney disease research center
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $4.6 million over the next five years to the Medical College of Wisconsin to establish a Research Center of Excellence in Pediatric Nephrology at Children's Research Institute. As one of only two such Centers in the country, it will build on current groundbreaking research programs at the College and Children's Research Institute, expediting new and exciting treatments for thousands of children with genetic, acquired or progressive kidney disease.

$1.2M grant awarded to study protection of the child's heart
John E. Baker, PhD, will study the role of thrombopoietin, a protein that increases platelet production and regulates cellular processes. The overall objective of Dr. Baker's grant is to define the intracellular signaling pathways by which thrombopoietin protects the heart against injury from ischemia and reperfusion. The four-year, $1.2 million renewal grant was awarded to the Medical College of Wisconsin from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

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