Posts Tagged ‘child health’

There is increasing evidence that a mother’s nutrition during pregnancy is a determinant of her child’s lifelong health. Get caught up on the latest findings in a lecture series called “Maternal Health and the Nutrition of Our Children.” The series will take place Wednesday, October 27 from 8 to 11:30 a.m in the OHSU Auditorium. Topics covered include: prenatal life and adult onset disease; how mothers nourish their babies; and obesity in pregnancy. View a … Read More

The Gerber Foundation has three pediatric-focused funding opportunities with a December 1, 2010 deadline. Research proposals should take into consideration the mission of the Gerber Foundation, which is to improve nutrition, care, and development of infants and young children from the first year before birth to three years of age. Specifically, the three research priority areas are: Pediatric Health – For research that promotes health and prevention of disease. Projects should be geared toward applied … Read More

Alex’s Lemonade Stand is a national foundation for childhood cancer that started in the front yard of a young cancer patient. This year, the Foundation is offering funding to nurse researchers who are working to improve nursing care for children with cancer. The following opportunities are available: Mentored Nurse Researcher Grant – For developing nurse researchers and their mentors to accomplish small research projects with goals that relate to improving nursing care, or quality of … Read More

OHSU’s Department of Pediatrics welcomes Kenneth Weinberg, MD, from the Division of Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation at the Stanford University School of Medicine to present at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital. The seminar, “Regeneration of the Immune System,” will be held Tuesday, May 25, 2010, from noon to 1 p.m.  in OHSU/Doernbecher Children’s Hospital 11th Floor Vey Auditorium. Dr. Kenneth Weinberg‘s research interest is the biology of lymphocyte development, especially as it applies to human health and … Read More

Department of  Pediatrics Research Seminar – Tuesday, March 30, 2010, noon to 1 p.m. OHSU’s Department of Pediatrics welcomes Maria Grant, MD, Professor in the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics at University of Florida to present at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital. The seminar, “Circadian dysregulation of endothelial progenitors in diabetes: Is it time to repair?” will be held Tuesday, March 30, 2010 from noon to 1 p.m.  in OHSU/Doernbecher Children’s Hospital 11th Floor, Collins & Goudy … Read More

March of Dimes has announced two funding opportunities:  Biomedical Research Funding and a Prematurity Research Initiative. The purpose of the Prematurity Research Initiative is to provide new insights into the large and increasing proportion of preterm deliveries in which the cause remains elusive.  Proposals should especially consider, but not be limited to: genetics, gene-environment interactions, and animal models.  Research proposals of new paradigms based on strong conceptual frameworks are invited.  A letter of intent (required) … Read More

The Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute is pleased to announce the awardees of 2009 OCTRI Pilot Project funding.  In addition to the OCTRI traditional and career Pilot Project funding, this round included a focused RFA for Child Health projects, funded jointly by OCTRI and the OHSU Department of Pediatrics.  The one-year Pilot Project funding is designed to stimulate preliminary data in novel research directions, and ultimately to launch new nationally funded research programs. OCTRI … Read More

Burroughs Wellcome Fund – Preterm Birth Initiative, deadline June 1st, 2009 The BWF has a call out for planning grant applications for their newest research initiative – Preterm Birth. This opportunity is designed to bring together a diverse interdisciplinary group with expertise in genetics/genomics, immunology, microbiology and proteomics along with more traditional areas of parturition research such as maternal fetal medicine, obstetrics, and pediatrics to address scientific issues related to preterm birth. The foundation expects … Read More

Proposals are due June 1st, 2009 (and December 1st, 2009) The Gerber Foundation has three pediatric-focused funding opportunities with a June 1st, 2009 deadline. Research proposals should take into consideration the mission of the Gerber Foundation, which is to improve nutrition, care, and development of infants and young children from the first year before birth to three years of age. Also note that interested investigators can work with the OHSU Foundation to develop their proposal … Read More

The most recent newsletter of the  OCTRI Community & Practice Research Program focuses on child health advances in community and population-based research. The newsletter covers the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI) housed at OHSU, two healthy weight intervention studies led by Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research investigators, and the recent collaboration between OHSU and the state’s health policy office to gather information about uninsured children. Access the newsletter here.