Center for Healthy Infant Lung Development (CHILD)
Research
Clinicians in the Center for Healthy Infant Lung Development (CHILD) are focused on standardizing the protocol for weaning infants and children off oxygen. As one of the larger program in the country, CHILD sees about 80 new patients each year and there are currently several hundred in their database. By keeping track of patients in this way, researchers are better able to monitor their outcomes and look at predictors of those outcomes.
Gene-chip studies provide a new lead in treating BPD
A team led by Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD, director of Children's Informatics Program, and Jennifer Cohen, MD a neonatology fellow at Children's, published gene expression studies of newborn umbilical cords that show a difference in the chromatin remodeling pathway.
