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Yale Child Health Research Center (YCHRC)

The Yale Child Health Research Center (YCHRC) is one of America's premier pediatric research centers. The mission of the YCHRC is twofold:

• To find causes and cures for illness affecting children and adolescents.
• To develop leaders in pediatric research.

The YCHRC is comprised of MD and PhD scientists with independent research programs. In addition, there are 12 post-doctoral research fellows, 8 research technicians, 4 graduate students and 10 undergraduate students. Administrative support staff maintains the day-to-day operations.

The research performed in the YCHRC is supported by different funding agencies. There are thirteen major National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards to YCHRC investigators. Eight foundation awards, including those from the Donaghue Foundation and the American Heart Association, help support our facility.

The YCHRC is a hub of training in pediatrics. It is the home to one of twenty NIH sponsored Children's Hospital Research Centers. The goal of the centers is to develop faculty members for careers in pediatric research. To date the Yale CHRC program has supported 36 junior faculty members. Forty percent of these individuals have gone on to obtain NIH funding. We are especially proud that the Yale CHRC is the longest continuously funded CHRC in the nation.

The YCHRC is composed of several laboratories led by clinical-scientists. Each of these investigators is nationally or internationally renowned in their field.

In addition to the ongoing work in the YCHRC, we are also developing new programs that are aimed at improving the training of tomorrow's leaders in pediatric research and expanding the scope of our research. Over the next year, the YCHRC will be hosting variety of research symposia. These meetings will involve research technicians, medical students, summer students, and pediatricians-in-training. We are developing research cores to integrate clinical-scientists with common interests, resulting in new thematic research programs.

Over the coming years, we anticipate that the YCHRC will become an even more dynamic center of pediatric research than it is now. We also anticipate that the fertile environment of the YCHRC will allow us to continue to train and develop the next generation of pediatric scientists.

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