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Childhood Diseases

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Childhood Diseases includes Groups that are focused on studying childhood diseases and disorders. There is a specific focus on understanding mechanisms of health versus disease, as well as identifying and testing new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.

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Brain, Behaviour & Development

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S. Evelyn Stewart

We bring together neuroscience, mental health and child development researchers through basic, clinical, population and public health research. We care for children with complex medical, physical, developmental and mental health needs, and lead national initiatives such as Networks of Centres of Excellence.

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Healthy Starts

Lead

Michael Steffen Kobor

Our overarching goal is to keep children and families healthy and out of the hospital by preventing lifelong health challenges and chronic diseases that are rooted in early childhood. We are passionate about furthering research into how a child’s family life and environment impacts their health, shedding light on healthy childhood development before and after birth, and improving child health worldwide through innovation, advocacy, education and capacity building.

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Evidence to Innovation

Co-Leads

Kishore Mulpuri, Ian Pike

We are health care innovators. Our team of clinicians and scientists are developing new health care technologies, improving patient care, advancing the safe and effective use of drugs, developing new methods of health data analytics, and shifting health system attitudes and behaviours to improve the health care and well-being of children and families. Together with the patients we serve, we are leading initiatives to inform health care policy and practice.

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Mini Med School – now online in real-time and on-demand – is growing to reach more students

Mini Med School is an award-winning health science youth outreach and public education program that's been held 21 times since 2003. This fall’s Mini Med School is transitioning to an all-virtual learning platform and focusing on the microbiome. In addition to Mini Med School Live for Grade 11 and 12 students, there's a Mini Med School On-Demand, which is open to everyone.

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Concussion education now required for supervisors of school sports in B.C.

BC School Sports, the governing organization for school sports in the province, has mandated a BC Children’s Hospital-based concussion education training module for its members who work with young athletes. Now those who supervise secondary school sports will be better prepared to prevent, respond to, and manage concussions in teens when these activities resume this fall.

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Join the fight against Sepsis this World Sepsis Day

On World Sepsis Day — September 13, 2020 — the Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) are urging all health systems, policymakers, healthcare workers, researchers, and civilians to develop a concerted effort on sepsis prevention, diagnosis, and management to save lives.

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Study shows CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing can prevent vision loss in mice

A recent study presents crucial steps toward a future treatment for aniridia-related vision problems and blindness in kids.

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New study helps improve bespoke immune cells’ ability to prevent transplant rejection in patients with donated tissue.

A new study, published this week in Science Translational Medicine, further refines a potential new treatment that can prevent transplant rejection in kids and adults without leaving them vulnerable to infection.

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