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Meet Xiomara Aguilera
Xiomara Aguilera, JD, Senior Manager of Research Contracting, Research and Sponsored Projects Administration, talks about what drew her to a career in research contracts, her career goals, and much more.
Dr. Jones Receives NIH Funding for National Career Development Program, Dr. Gelineau-Morel Selected as Supported Investigator
The NIH K12 award funds a national program to support the development of pediatric clinical pharmacology researchers and strengthen the community of clinical pharmacologist investigators engaged in...
CAB in Action: Community Advisory Board Members Lead Research Efforts Impacting their Communities
Since its inception, Community Advisory Board (CAB) members have collaborated with researchers at every step in the research process —from study inception to dissemination of study results. Increasingly...
Dr. Vivekanand Yadav Receives Noah’s Bandage Project Grant to Study Novel CAR T Cell Therapy to Treat Childhood Brain Tumors
The funding is being used for Dr. Yadav’s study, “Determining the Therapeutic Efficacy of Novel Bi-specific CAR T Cells (anti-B7H3-GD2) in H3G34R/Vmutated Pediatric High-Grade Gliomas (pHGGs).” The study...
Dr. Emily Killough Receives Children’s Justice Act Award to Update Child Protector App
For this project, Dr. Killough and co-investigator, Lyndsey Hultman, MD, Pediatric Fellow, will add new and updated content to the Child Protector app, including new animations, images, and medical...
Emerging Principal Investigators: Dr. Keith Feldman
Since joining Children’s Mercy in 2019, Dr. Feldman has been involved with more than 25 projects across more than 10 hospital divisions and three external institutions. These projects are collaborative...
Dr. Bakula Receives NIH K23 Award for Mental Health Treatment for Parents of Children with Pediatric Feeding Disorder
Caring for a child with pediatric feeding disorder (PFD) is very stressful, and 40% of parents of children with PFD report mental health concerns such as depression, anxiety, and parenting stress. Parent...
Genomic Medicine Center: Building the Foundation for Tomorrow’s Research Today
The Genomic Medicine Center at Children’s Mercy Kansas City provides clinical genomic services and conducts innovative genomic research, including the Genomic Answer for Kids (GA4K) program. The team has...
Meet Debarpan Dhar
Debarpan Dhar, PhD, MSc, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, talks about what drew him to a career in research, his research and career goals, and much more.
Dr. Robin Shook Receives CDC Funding to Improve Health and Prevent Chronic Disease in Kansas City
The REACH funding will help Dr. Shook improve health, prevent chronic diseases, and reduce health disparities among Latino and Black communities in the Kansas City metro area, which is the fifth most...
Department of Defense Funds $1.5 Million Grant to Dr. Tarak Srivastava to Study Immunopathogenesis of Nephrotic Syndrome in Children
Nephrotic syndrome is a common kidney disease in children that causes protein loss from the blood into the urine leading to proteinuria from damage to the kidney filter. Treatment involves steroids and...
Dr. Helena Laroche Receives NIH Award to Study the Role of Parental Bandwidth in Child Obesity Treatment
The goals of this project are to determine whether adding a community health worker (CHW) to a child obesity treatment intervention improves outcomes for children from families with social risk factors...
Dr. Thomas Cochran Receives Discovery and Innovation Award from Western New York BloodCare
“Further understanding of the role of hepcidin in the hemophilia population would directly improve outcomes and prevent the complications of iron deficiency in children with hemophilia,” said Dr. Cochran.
Emerging Principal Investigators: Dr. Ayanda Chakawa
Ayanda Chakawa, PhD, Developmental and Behavioral Health, is both a clinical psychologist who provides behavioral health care to youth and a researcher interested in improving access to that care.
Drs. Iwakuma and Perry Receive Masonic Cancer Alliance Grants to Further their Cancer-Fighting Research
Tomoo Iwakuma, MD, PhD, and John Perry, PhD, Hematology/Oncology/BMT, both received advisory board grants from the Masonic Cancer Alliance (MCA) to further their ongoing cancer research.
Dr. Paprocki Receives Award from Foundation for Prader-Willi Research to Gather Data Surrounding Growth Hormone Therapy, Sleep Disturbances
Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a genetic disorder that can cause intellectual disabilities, behavioral problems, sleep abnormalities, and obesity due to extreme hunger. In infancy, signs and symptoms...
Meet Lynette Lartey, MPH, MCHES, Research Associate, Health Services and Outcomes Research
Lynette Lartey, of Health Services and Outcomes Research, talks about what drew her to a career in research, her research and career goals, and much more.
5 Questions: Meet Our Research Staff
Each month, we ask one of our CMRI team members five questions to learn more about their role in research and what motivates them. ...
Dr. Robin Shook Receives Grant from The Kansas City Royals Foundation to Create a Central Repository for Youth Physical Activity
The project’s aim is to create a free, public facing, searchable central repository of youth physical activity programs in the Kansas City region. This comprehensive database will be available to all...
Wearables in Research
The Research Informatics and Data Science team led by Mark Hoffman, PhD, Chief Research Information Officer, is an example of a group that collaborates with researchers throughout the CMRI. The team provides...