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Drs. Nedved, El Feghaly Use Grant to Study Drivers of Health Inequity in Antibiotic Prescribing for Respiratory Infections in Pediatric Urgent Care Clinics
The team’s collaborative is using QI methodology to identify primary drivers of health equity in antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) and develop, implement, and study the effect of interventions to narrow the...
Bradley Receives Funding to Continue Research on Antibody Responses to SARS-CoV-2
The research will focus on antibodies that are generated to the enzyme angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), which is used by SARS-CoV-2 to enter and infect cells.
Dr. Shayla Sullivant Receives Grant from Menorah Heritage Foundation to Expand Prepped and Ready Program
Prepped and Ready is a program to help equip parents for the transition into parenting teenagers. The goal is to empower parents and caregivers to address the hard topics that can be very uncomfortable.
Dr. Doug Myers Receives Grant to Study How Tumor Microenvironment Suppress Tumor Killing Capabilities of CAR T Cells
The funding is being used for Dr. Myers’ study “Role of macrophages and tumor structure in modulating chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell activity in solid tumors.”
Andrea Bradley-Ewing Receives PCORI Award to Help Advance the Study of Health Disparities Among Black and Latinx Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
The group's project, “Addressing Health Disparities in Black Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD)” will partner with historically marginalized communities to develop a...
Dr. Helena Laroche Receives Funding to Study Social Risk Factor Screening and Referral Evaluations
The study’s goal is to evaluate recent changes that Children’s Mercy Integrated Care Solutions (CMICS) implemented to screening and referrals for social determinants of health risk factors.
Kara Hansen Receives Funding from Children’s Mercy Patient Care Services Research to Study Depression Screening in a Fetal Care Center
This study’s goal is to help fill the current gap in the literature.
Dr. Kevin Latz Receives Grant to Collaboratively Streamline Access to Pediatric ACL Care
Dr. Latz’s project, “Decreasing Delays in Pediatric ACL Care,” will develop a set of feasible, collaborative initiatives that improve access to pediatric ACL care.
Bradley Receives Grant to Develop Novel Cellular Immunotherapies for Those With B-cell Lymphoma
Dr. Todd Bradley’s study, “Dual-targeting Immunotherapy to Target B-cell Lymphoma,” will build on current therapies that use the patient’s own immune cells to engineer CAR-T cells.
Mokhallati Awarded Grant for School-based Telemedicine Program for Students With Asthma
The project, which is working with four Kansas City Public Schools where it was determined asthma prevalence and severity is high, has received a $55,460 grant from the Health Forward Foundation.
Dr. Tomoo Iwakuma Receives NIH Grant to Organize International Conference Focusing on Cancer Research, Promoting Scientific Interactions
Dr. Iwakuma used the funding to co-organize the 10th International MDM2 Workshop which took place Oct. 15-18, 2023, in Tokyo, Japan.
Community Advisory Board and Youth Research Advisory Board
As part of the commitment to community engagement, the CMRI established the Community Advisory Board (CAB) in 2020 and the Youth Research Advisory Board (YRAB) in 2022. Board members provide input on CMRI...
Dr. Kaela Varberg Awarded NIH Grant to Investigate the Role of ASCL2 in Trophoblast Cell Lineage Development
Dr. Varberg’s study titled, “Regulation of Invasive Trophoblast Cell Lineage Development,” will identify gene targets of Achaete-Scute Family Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factor 2 (ASCL2) and place...
Dr. Mark Hoffman a co-PI on Study that Uses De-Identified Data to Research Health Effects of Climate Change
The project, “Using massive, multi-regional EHR data to estimate the impacts of climate change on fungal disease epidemiology in the U.S.,” will investigate the health effects of climate change on fungal...
Dr. Puls Receives Award to Study Home Visiting in Child Maltreatment Prevention
To better understand the efficacy of home visiting (HV) in child maltreatment prevention, this study will assess the effects protective factors like economic self-sufficiency and positive parenting...
Dr. Meagan Vacek Receives Award from Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation to Study Infant Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Dr. Vacek's study will use single cell genomics to investigate transcriptomic changes during hematopoietic differentiation of human iPSCs engineered to express the KMT2A:AFF1. It will also compare the iPSCs...
Dr. Jonathan Wagner Receives Grant to Study Ways to Improve Drug Dosing and Outcomes for Patients with Fontan Associated Liver Disease
This study focuses on children who have had the Fontan procedure. These are children with severe heart disease with only one functional ventricle.
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. Winston Manimtim Using Funding from Courtney S. Turner Charitable Trust to Measure Respiratory Mechanics in Normal Term Infants and Preterm Infants with BPD
The funding will be used for a project led by Winston Manimtim, MD, Neonatology. The project, “Conducting Lung Function Assessments in Premature Infants with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD) and Term Well...
Infant Sleep Disorders: Children’s Mercy Researchers Conduct First Large Study
Children’s Mercy Research Institute tapped into a huge database to conduct the first large study of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in infants.