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Labs and Research Teams

Labs and Research Teams at the Children's Mercy Research Institute

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ACCESS Behavioral Health Lab
Part of Developmental and Behavioral Health
Research Interests
  • PATHWAY Behavioral Health Program
  • Access to Services
  • Diversity
  • Health Disparities
  • Unmet Needs
  • Primary Care
  • Diversity Scholar
  • Katherine B. Richardson Award
  • Parent Faculty Advisory Counciles (PFACs)

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Baby Health and Behavior Lab
Research Interests
  • Added sugar intakes
  • Child health and development
  • Eating behavior
  • Infancy
  • Non-food environment
  • Obesity
  • Prenatal substance abuse
  • Rapid weight gain
  • Toddlerhood
Baby Lab
Research Interests
  • Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
  • Early Intervention
  • Language Intervention/Promotion
  • Social-Emotional Development
  • Parent-Child Relationships/Interactions
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
Bactrim Lung Failure Team
Research Interests
  • Bactrim
  • ECMO
  • Lung Failure
  • Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole
Behavioral Pain Innovations Lab
Part of Developmental and Behavioral Health
Research Interests
  • Digital health
  • Migraine
  • Headache
  • Behavioral treatment
  • Pain
  • Psychosocial aspects of health and disease

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Center for Children’s Healthy Lifestyles & Nutrition
Part of the Weight Management Program
Research Interests
  • Community research
  • healthy lifestyles
  • childhood obesity
  • weight management
  • physical activity
  • nutrition
  • metabolism
  • rural and underserved populations
  • clinical trials
  • mHealth
Community Engaged Research Team
Part of Population Health
Research Interests
  • Community Engaged Research
  • Dissemination
  • Health Disparities
  • Inclusion and Diversity in Research
  • Social Determinants of Health

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Developmental and Behavioral Health Research Group
Part of Developmental and Behavioral Health
Research Interests
  • Mental health
  • Behavioral health
  • Psychosocial aspects of chronic health conditions
  • Student health
  • Mental and behavioral health service delivery and equity

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Fridley Lab
Part of Division of Health Services and Outcomes Research
Research Interests
  • Bioinformatics
  • Biostatistics
  • Cancer

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Laboratory of Immunogenomics
Part of the Genomic Medicine Center
Research Interests
  • Antibody immune response
  • Autoimmunity
  • Cancer research
  • Immunotherapy development
  • Infection research
  • Multidimensional seromics
  • Single-cell genomics
  • Vaccine Research

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Milkovich Lab
Part of Developmental and Behavioral Health
Research Interests
  • School-based mental health interventions
  • Community participatory research
  • Technology use and behavior

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Nadler Lab
Part of Developmental and Behavioral Health
Research Interests
  • Autism spectrum disorder
  • Developmental disabilities
  • Parenting
  • Mental health
  • Health disparities
  • Health outcomes

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Pediatric Brain Cancer Research Team/Yadav Lab
Part of Hematology, Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplant
Research Interests
  • Pediatric High-Grade Glioma (pHGG)
  • DIPG, DMG
  • DMG tumor model, In utero electroporation (IUE) genetically engineered mouse model
  • Tumor Epigenetics
  • DIPG invasion/migration
  • Drug resistance mechanisms
  • In vivo CRISPR screening
  • ID1 (inhibitor of DNA binding protein)
  • Drug screening in DMG tumors

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Ramsey Lab
Part of Pharmacology and Toxicology: GOLDILOKs Clinic
Research Interests
  • Antidepressants
  • Chemotherapy
  • Oncology
  • Pharmacogenetics
  • Pharmacogenomics
  • Pharmacology
  • Precision dosing
  • Precision medicine
  • Psychiatry
  • Rheumatology

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Sullivant Lab
Part of Developmental and Behavioral Health
Research Interests
  • Firearms
  • Injury Prevention
  • Mental Health
  • Parent Education
  • Poisoning
  • Screening
  • Suicide
  • Teen Health Risk
  • Teen Safety

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Varberg Lab
Part of Division of Neonatology
Research Interests
  • Genomics
  • Maternal Health
  • Placenta
  • Pregnancy
  • Preterm Birth
  • Reproduction
  • Trophoblast

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Younger Lab
Part of the Genomic Medicine Center
Research Interests
  • Variant identification
  • Whole genome sequencing
  • CRISPR
  • Genomic assays
  • Rare diseases
  • Rare genetic variants
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