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Center for Children's Health Research

  • Researching Ways to Reduce Healthcare Disparities and Improve Outcomes

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    Bringing Discoveries and Innovations from Bench to Bedside

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    Collaboration and Scientific Investigation Improve the Health of Children Worldwide

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Research Highlights

PAS Conference Update

Our pediatric faculty, trainees and staff recently enjoyed the annual Pediatric Academic Societies conference. Rochester Pediatrics was represented in 83 scientific and academic presentations building a on a strong environment of collaboration. Some of the topics are highlighted in these videos.

Pediatric Research News

Read about the advances our researchers are working toward.

Protecting the vulnerable, informing the future

Jul 24, 2023
This is not another story about COVID. This is a story about how a group of scientists—including a neuroscientist, virologist, and nephrologist—and school leadership rolled up their sleeves, stepp...

Halting the Rise of Parkinson’s

Apr 24, 2023
The University of Rochester’s leadership in the field of environmental medicine stretches back to toxicology research programs developed at the University under the Manhattan Project. These progra...

Combining Pregnancy and Dental Check Ups

Feb 08, 2023
Thanks to a University of Rochester Medical Center grant, Eastman Institute for Oral Health Associate Professor Jin Xiao, DDS, PhD, will use artificial intelligence and digital technology to help e...

Dozens of Rochester-area children involved in COVID-19 vaccine trials

Sep. 2, 2021

'A wave of the future': local biologist explores what's next for mRNA technology

Aug. 30, 2021

Study predicts which kids hospitalized with RSV likely to worsen

Apr. 1, 2021
Children with high levels of defective viral genomes likely to get even sicker. (URMC Collaborator Yan Sun, Ph.D.)