Identifying and preventing inflammation-induced brain injury in preterm infants

出生时暴露于感染/炎症是与长期残疾有关的最常见因素之一。目前还没有有效的治疗方法。我的研究将使用世界级的大脑结构和功能测量技术来提高我们对感染/炎症如何影响早产儿大脑发育的理解，并确定阻断大脑中的关键炎症途径是否有助于恢复早产儿的正常大脑生长和发育。

Exposure to infection/inflammation around the time of birth is one of the most common factors associated with long-term disability. There is no effective treatment. My studies will use world-class techniques for measuring brain structure and function to improve our understanding of how infection/inflammation impacts on development of the preterm brain and determine whether blocking key inflammatory pathways in the brain will help restore normal brain growth and development in preterm infants.