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Research at Texas Children’s Hospital
Texas Children's Feigin Center for
Pediatric Research
houses more than 120 Texas Children's and Baylor College of Medicine
researchers who seek cures for
childhood diseases and conditions. Housing 200,000 square feet of
state-of-the-art laboratory space, the Feigin
Center represents one of the country's largest commitments to
pediatric research.
Research and
the future of children's health care
Dr. Ralph D. Feigin,
physician-in-chief at Texas Children's and the J.S.
Abercrombie professor and chair of the department of
pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, examines research
and what it means to the future of children's health care in
an article that appeared in the
Sept. 21, 2005, issue of
JAMA.
Read the abstract |
Approximately 400 research
projects, with funding of more than $54 million annually, are
under way at Texas Children's to study subjects such as:
- Medications to improve the quality
of life for children with HIV/AIDS and other chronic illnesses;
- Diagnostic methods based on DNA
analysis for cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy and other genetic
disorders;
- Stomach emptying in premature
infants;
- Development of treatments through
gene therapy;
- Better treatment regimes for, and
the genetic causes of, pediatric cancer.
The majority of these funds are from
the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Medical advances identified at the
Feigin Center become cutting-edge treatments for Texas
Children's patients, and ultimately result in better
lives for young people.
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Research
Administration |
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Vice Chair of Research |
Morey
Haymond, M.D. |
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Director |
Melinda Mathis, M.P.A. |
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Telephone |
832-824-3340 |
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