Marco Jost, Ph.D. – 2022
Marco Jost, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Microbiology Harvard Medical School Linkedin Globe Twitter Decoding How Host-Microbiome Communication Impacts Childhood Obesity Childhood obesity is a detriment to child health worldwide: the number of afflicted children is rising rapidly, and obesity predisposes children to negative health conditions, including cardiovascular diseases, liver diseases, and asthma, in both childhood […]
Kaelyn Sumigray, Ph.D – 2022
Kaelyn Sumigray, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Genetics Yale School of Medicine Linkedin Globe Envelope Twitter Identifying the Cell of Origin in Intestinal Cystic Fibrosis Disease Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a devastating inherited disorder that causes severe damage to the lungs, digestive system, and other organs, resulting in dramatically reduced life expectancy. CF is caused by […]
Xu Zhou, Ph.D. – 2022
Xu Zhou, Ph.D. Instructor of Pediatrics Boston Children’s Hospital Linkedin Globe Twitter Dissecting Immune-Stromal Interactions to Discover Novel Strategy to Modulate Inflammation Inflammation is associated with many pediatric diseases. A proper inflammatory response helps remove frequently encountered bacteria and viruses. However, an inflammatory response in excess causes tissue damage, which can lead to organ dysfunction […]
Humsa Venkatesh, Ph.D. – 2022
Humsa Venkatesh, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Neurology Brigham and Women’s Hospital Linkedin Globe Twitter Spatial Mapping of Malignant Subpopulations Enabling Neuron-Glioma Circuit Interactions in DIPG Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is amongst the most lethal types of childhood cancer. Due to its limited occurrence, DIPG is often not prioritized in research. For these cancers, surgical […]
Wan-Ling Tseng, Ph.D. – 2022
Wan-Ling Tseng, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry Yale School of Medicine Linkedin Globe Twitter Neural Markers of Chronic, Persistent Pediatric Irritability Irritability, an increased propensity to experience anger and frustration, affects up to 3.7 million children and adolescents in the U.S. Irritability and anger outbursts are among the most common reasons why children are […]
Xin Tang, Ph.D. – 2022
Xin Tang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Boston Children’s Hospital Linkedin Globe Twitter Developing a Broadly Applicable Therapeutic Strategy to Reverse Symptoms of Neurodevelopmental Disorders One in six children in the US is afflicted by Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD), such as Autism, Down syndrome, and cerebral palsy. In these NDD patients, genetic sequencing has discovered mutations in a […]
Sara Prescott, Ph.D. – 2022
Sara Prescott, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biology MIT Linkedin Globe Twitter The Role of Airway Neurons in Childhood Asthma Asthma is a chronic disease of the airways affecting nearly 1 in 13 Americans. Symptoms of asthma are caused by narrowing of the airways and include trouble breathing, wheezing, coughing, and chest pain. The impact of […]
Fiachra Humphries, Ph.D. – 2022
Fiachra Humphries, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine UMass Medical School Linkedin Globe Twitter The Role of MARCO in Pediatric Cancer Our immune response is equipped with potent anti-tumor mechanisms that can sense and destroy tumors. However, tumor cells have evolved sophisticated mechanisms that evade immune responses by shielding the tumor environment from pro-inflammatory signals. Macrophages […]
Elizabeth Yen, M.D. – 2021
Elizabeth Yen, M.D. Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Tufts Medical Center Globe Twitter Salivary Transcriptomic Analysis to Understand Sex-Dependent Inflammatory Effects of Prenatal Opioid Exposure on the Brain Reward Signaling Infants born to mothers who use opioid drugs during pregnancy are at risk for withdrawal signs, known as neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). Hospital staff determines the […]
Andrea Spencer, M.D. – 2021
Andrea Spencer, M.D. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Boston Medical Center Linkedin Globe Twitter Rising Suicides in Black Children with ADHD: The Role of Discrimination Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a common childhood medical condition. ADHD is treatable, but if left untreated, it can cause significant problems throughout the lifespan. One possible consequence of untreated ADHD is […]