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Topics
- Adolescent Sexual Activity
- Childhood Leukemia
- Congenital Heart Disease
- Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
- Duchenne/Becker Muscular Dystrophy
- Osteogenesis Imperfecta
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy
- Child Abuse & Neglect Research
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
- Pediatric Cardiomyopathy
- Polycystic Kidney Disease
- Pediatric Cancer
- Spina Bifida
- Childhood Injury
- Underage Drinking
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
- Childhood Obesity
- Teenage Pregnancy
- Conditions Affecting the Embryonic & Fetal Periods
- Conditions Originating in the Perinatal Period
- Infant Mortality
- Preterm, Low Birth Weight & Health of the Newborn
- Unintentional Childhood Injury
- Youth Violence
- Youth Violence Prevention
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Yukiko Yano
Research TopicsYukiko Yano, Ph.D., M.P.H., focuses her research on methodologic and etiologic studies of the human oral microbiome as well as studies of risk fa…
William A. Gahl
Research TopicsFor the past three decades, researchers in the Human Biochemical Genetics Section have studied rare disorders and discovered new diseases, employ…
Stephen J. Chanock
Research TopicsDr. Stephen Chanock’s research focuses on expanding our understanding of the biological basis for genetic susceptibility to cancer. To conduct th…
Sergey L. Leikin
Research TopicsThe extracellular matrix (ECM) is involved in a wide variety of disorders, ranging from rare genetic abnormalities of skeletal development to suc…
Roberto Jose Romero-Galue
Research TopicsPremature birth remains the leading cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality worldwide. The Pregnancy Research Branch (PRB) has conceptualized …
Ping Zhang
Research TopicsWe are a basic research laboratory that studies the structural and functional basis of protein kinase signaling. Protein kinases regulate almost …
Nasser Rusan
Research TopicsOur lab studies centrosomes, non-membrane bound organelles that serve as the cell’s main microtubule (MT) organizing center (MTOC). Our efforts a…
Naomi Taylor
Research TopicsDuring the next few years, our new group in the Pediatric Oncology Branch aims to combine fundamental and translational approaches to respond to …
Maryland Pao
Research TopicsDr. Pao’s core research interests are in the complex interactions between medical and psychiatric symptoms in pediatric oncology, pediatric HIV a…