We're excited to share with you all our FY24 Annual Report. It highlights our translational research efforts to improve the health & wellbeing of children. It also showcases our partnerships with researchers, clinicians, patients, families + communities.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Keith August! For the second year in a row, he received a @hopeonwheels Impact Grant, which helps maintain his clinical trials infrastructure. Learn more:

We're spotlighting CMRI team members who play an integral part in making research happen but whose role may be more behind-the-scenes. Meet Ashley Parks, BSN, RN, CPN, Research Nurse Coordinator, Pediatric Clinical Research Unit (PCRU):

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Jessica Wallisch! She received an Innovative Project Award from @American_Heart to support her research on a new method for early detection of acute brain injury in #ECMO patients. #NeuroPICU #PedsICU Learn more:

Helping researchers turn groundbreaking ideas into real-world solutions! Our own Dr. Todd Bradley is among the 9 researchers participating in the 6-month @KuInnovation program to drive their discoveries from the lab to the marketplace.

We look forward to having Dr. Hubert Tse, @KUMedCenter, as the guest speaker for our next Academic Scholarship Conference. ▶️ April 11 at 12 p.m. ▶️ Presentation: "The genetics of Type 1 diabetes susceptibility in mouse and man"

Help us congratulate some members of our research community who are celebrating their @ChildrensMercy work anniversaries this month. We're extremely lucky to have these amazing people as part of our team!

Please join us in congratulating @ChildrensMercy's Facility Dog Program! It received two grants to maintain and expand, which includes adding a 5th dog, Patsy, in December. 🐶Learn about what the Facility Dog Program provides to patient, families & staff:

“My main research focus is understanding how rare human genetic variation affects disease risk." Meet Dr. Craig Smail and learn about his work in genetic research:

Please join us in congratulating Lynette Lartey. She received a grant from Kansas Birth Equity Network for her project that explores how doulas & community health workers culturally broker communication between pregnant clients & providers in the Midwest.

Feb. 28 is #RareDiseaseDay and today our Rare Disease PFAC (Patient Family Advisory Council) hosted an awareness table in the Kreamer Resource Center. PFAC members handed out information on rare diseases and answered questions.

Dr. Paul Kulesa's research focuses on neural crest cell development in the embryo and how these cells migrate long distances and differentiate into specific cell types (bone, cartilage and neurons). Learn about his team & his lab's innovative techniques:

RT @FrontiersCTSI: Robin Shook's, Ph.D., @ResearchCM, research, which was partly funded by a Frontiers Lauren S. Aaronson Pilot Award, was….

Help us congratulate some members of our research community who are celebrating their @ChildrensMercy work anniversaries this month. We're extremely lucky to have these amazing people as part of our team!

RT @CMBioethics: Our #Ethics #Fellow Dr Candyce Greene ( discusses, "Pediatric Bioethics: Delivering Serious or Bad….

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Venkatesh Sampath. In early January he received a 4-year grant from @NIDDKgov to investigate how premature infants develop necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a life-threatening illness. Learn more:

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Mollie Walton. She received a grant through the CM Clinical Fellowship Research Awards program for her study that focuses on beta blocker therapy for those with Marfan Syndrome. #MarfanSyndrome #pedscards Learn more:

February 11 was #NationalInventorsDay. President Reagan chose that date as it is the birthday of Thomas Edison, one of the most well-known inventors. To celebrate the day, our Office of Technology Transfer & Commercialization honored 6 @ChildrensMercy inventors for their work.

Thanks to generous support from donors and dedicated work from our clinicians and researchers, we are making great strides towards better understanding and treatment for children with this rare neurogenetic disorder. #AngelmanSyndrome (4/4) Learn more:

The Madison Lauren Sargent Endowed Professorship in Neurology/Angelman Syndrome was established in 2023 and Dr. J.B. Le Pichon is proud & humbled to be its first recipient. (3/4)

Our Angelman Syndrome Clinic, inaugurated on Dec. 17, 2022, has enrolled over 40 families and another 10 or so are waiting for their first visit. The clinic is officially recognized and has received grants from the @angelman. (2/4)