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February 2008
Children's Research Institute News Brief
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Bernard L. Maria, MD, MBA
Executive Director
Darby Children's
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Inderjit Singh, PhD
Scientific Director
Darby Children's
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Celebrate our 3rd DCRI Anniversary, February 28 - 29
As Dr. Key mentioned, this month marks the 3rd Anniversary for the Charles P. Darby Children's Research Institute (DCRI), and we're planning a celebration to honor all the great work we've achieved over the last three years.
The DCRI is now "home" to more than 150 dedicated and forward-thinking investigators and staff in 11 interdisciplinary programs, who collectively make approximately 90 new discoveries each year. That's an amazing and awesome feat!
We continue to house some of the nation's most successful investigators, and each day focus on translating fundamental discoveries into new treatments for children. Our innovative collaborations bring together medical investigators who are breaking boundaries in partnerships to create forward-looking solutions. Some of the important advances of the last year include among others, a first-in-class, NIH-funded clinical trial to protect the brains of unborn children whose mothers experience chorioamnionitis before delivery.
We hope you'll join us on February 28 and 29, 2008 as we celebrate the last year's advancements toward improving children's health, including new discoveries in basic biology, and in translational and clinical sciences.
On Thursday February 28, Dr. William C. Mobley's presentation on "Exploring the neural circuitry of developmental and degenerative disorders in mouse models of Down Syndrome" kicks off the celebration at 11am in BSB302.
With an M.D. and a PhD. in Neuroscience from Stanford University and residency training in Neurology at Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Dr. Mobley is an expert on neurotrophic factors that lead to neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's disease and Down's syndrome. A past chair of the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford, he holds the John E. Cahill Family Endowed Chair, and is founding director of the Neuroscience Institute. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and, in 2006, he was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Following Dr. Mobley's forum, please join us for an Open House and Poster Session, from 1-3pm on the 2nd floor DCRI/BSB Lobby, with refreshments and presentations by DCRI investigators on DCRI floors 2 through 6. As in years past, we're expecting attendance and lively participation from the Children's Hospital and MUSC's community of researchers, health professionals and trainees. We look forward to it!
On Friday February 29, Dr. Mobley delivers his second talk, "Minding the Gaps in Brain development: Enabling Great Science to become Great Medicine" at 8 a.m., SEI 8th Floor Auditorium, followed by a mini-reception and Q&A session.
See you there!
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