Children's hospital receives eight-figure grant

  • 2016-03-05
The National Institutes of Health, a federal agency, has awarded Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati a grant of $32.5m over five years.

The hospital will use the grant to study why babies are sometimes born with heart flaws, which a leading cause of death in newborns.

With the grant, Children's Hospital will become the center for coordinating efforts of those working in the Bench to Bassinet Program. The hospital will provide infrastructure for members of the program to collaborate with one another, and transfer research that shows promise from the laboratory to the clinical setting. It will also be the hub for data, managing information for cardiac researchers.

Eileen C. King, who is an associate professor and principal investigator in biostatistics and epidemiology, said the grant would enable Children's to make sure that data and infrastructure are integrated and shared, to speed up the discovery of the biological and genetic causes of congenital heart problems.

Approximately 40,000 infants are born with congenital heart flaws in the United States annually. Estimates suggest that perhaps 800,000 children and two million adults live with the condition.

Hospital officials might consider working with a brochure printing company in order to create a booklet that outlines their plans for managing data and operating as a clearinghouse for information for the program. They could then make the Brochures available to cardiac specialists throughout the country.
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