2018 Research Awards
| Boston Children’s Hospital (Kimberly Mills, MD) | $318,921 |
| Boston, MA | |
| Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis versus Placebo – a Blinded Randomized Control Trial to Evaluate the Safety of Two Strategies in Critically Ill Infants with Congenital Heart Disease (SUPPRESS-CHD) | |
| Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Katherine Bell, MD) | $20,000 |
| Boston, MA | |
| Body composition analysis: A useful tool for assessing nutritional status in premature infants? | |
| Children’s Hospital Medical Center (Alexander Vinks, PharmD, PhD) | $324,998 |
| Cincinnati, OH | |
| Electronic Health Record (EHR)-embedded Decision Support Platform for Individualized Precision Drug Treatment in Neonates | |
| Children’s Hospital Medical Center (Sanyukta Desai, MD, MS) | $20,000 |
| Cincinnati, OH | |
| Imaging Gently: Identifying Opportunities to Reduce Imaging Overuse in Hospitalized Children | |
| Cochrane Neonatal/University of Vermont (Roger Soll, MD) | $262,562 |
| Burlington, VT | |
| Evidence synthesis for preterm infant nutrition | |
| Denver Health Foundation (Holly Frost, MD) | $349,380 |
| Denver, CO | |
| The NO TEARS study: Using Nasopharyngeal Organism Testing to determine outcomes of children with EAR infections. | |
| Northwestern University (Leena Mithal, MSc, MD) | $328,924 |
| Chicago, IL | |
| Biomarker Signatures for Diagnosis of Neonatal Sepsis in Umbilical Cord Blood | |
| Oregon Health & Science University (Hayden Leeds, BS) | $19,979 |
| Portland, OR | |
| Assessment of Pulmonary Function Tests in Infants with Congenital Heart Disease | |
| St Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Julia Hurwitz, PhD) | $247,500 |
| Memphis, TN | |
| Influence of vitamin A and D supplements on the success of the pneumococcus conjugate vaccine in children (PCVIT) | |
| University of Maryland (Bing Ma, MS, PhD) | $332,151 |
| College Park, MD | |
| An accurate, non-invasive discriminatory screening test for rapid detection of elevated intestinal permeability in preterm infants at risk for necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) | |
| University of Miami (Waleed Kurtom, MD) | $19,987 |
| Miami, FL | |
| Impact of arterial oxygen saturation on ventilatory instability in extremely premature infants | |
| University of Michigan (Elizabeth Ames, MD) | $20,000 |
| Ann Arbor, MI | |
| Optimal strategy for renal replacement therapy in newborns with hyperammonemia due to inborn errors of metabolism | |
| University of Michigan (Lori Isom, PhD) | $350,000 |
| Ann Arbor, MI | |
| Discovering mechanisms of SCN1B-linked pediatric Dravet syndrome with high risk of Sudden Unexpected Death in EPilepsy (SUDEP) | |
| University of Pennsylvania (Kevin Nead, MPhil, MD) | $19,957 |
| Philadelphia, PA | |
| Risk of cancer in children among families known to carry BRCA1/2 mutations | |
| Washington University (Xunjun Xiao, PhD) | $284,426 |
| St. Louis, MO | |
| Pancreatic Lipase Related Protein 2 W340Δ Polymorphism as a Risk Factor for Failure to Thrive in Infants | |
| TOTAL NATIONAL GRANTS AWARDED: | $ 2,918,785 |
Grants Awarded in Previous Years