Fellowship Training Grants

Disease in the Newborn Infant

Contact: F. Sessions Cole, M.D.

This is an Institutional Research Training Grant within the Department of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine intended to train physician-scientists in Newborn Medicine and Developmental Biology. The goal is to utilize the unique resources at Washington University, including the Developmental Biology Group in the Department of Pediatrics and the Developmental Biology Program in the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, to establish a training program with a participating faculty of pediatricians and basic scientists who share common interests and frequent investigative and scholarly interactions. The program is intended to provide funding for an initial two years of laboratory investigation and emphasizes the application of cell and molecular biologic approaches to address fundamental issues in the most important problems of newborn infants. Trainees will benefit from the numerous educational activities within the institution, including didactic coursework as well as journal clubs and seminars in the basic sciences. The substantive collaboration of established pediatric physician-scientists and basic investigators pursuing questions in developmental biology provides a unique opportunity for the training of selected individuals in the application of fundamental experimental methods to the treatment and prevention of diseases of the newborn infant. As such, this program should result in the generation of new pediatric scholars to lead the way for future advances in this important area of child health.