Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD Cooperative Multicenter Neonatal Research Network

描述（由申请人提供）：Eunice Kennedy S/7nVer国家儿童健康和人类发展研究所新生儿研究网络是一个学术中心合作小组，开展多中心临床试验，研究新生儿医学问题，特别是与低出生体重、早产和常见新生儿医学问题有关的问题。印第安纳大学医学院是印第安纳州唯一的医学院和唯一的综合性儿童医院所在地，印第安纳州人口640万，每年出生88,000人。印第安纳大学医学中心位于印第安纳波利斯州的地理中心，是高危围产期患者和危重新生儿的主要转诊中心。新生儿-围产期医学科的临床、教学和科研项目有着悠久的优良传统。具体的专业领域包括临床试验、胎儿和新生儿营养、发育造血、分子免疫学和干细胞生物学。自1991年以来，印第安纳大学获得了持续的资助，并为新生儿研究网络做出了重大贡献，因为有大量的患者可用于研究，最先进的临床和研究设施和临床研究基础设施，具有广泛临床研究专业知识的强大研究者，以及优秀的研究支持人员。在下一个资助周期中，印第安纳大学将继续为新生儿研究网络进行的所有观察性研究和临床试验提供大量的受试者，并将通过开发旨在解决重要临床问题的创新研究方案来为科学使命做出贡献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Eunice Kennedy S/7nVer National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network is a cooperative group of academic centers that perform multicenter clinical trials to investigate problems in neonatal medicine, particularly those related to low birth weight, prematurity, and common neonatal medical problems. The Indiana University School of Medicine is the only medical school and the site of the only comprehensive children's hospital in Indiana, a state with a population of 6.4 million and 88,000 annual births. Located at the geographical center of the state in Indianapolis, the Indiana University Medical Center serves as the principal referral center for high-risk perinatal patients and critically ill neonates. The clinical, teaching and research programs of the Section of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine have a long tradition of excellence. Specific areas of expertise include clinical trials, fetal and neonatal nutrition, developmental hematopoiesis, molecular immunology, and stem cell biology. Since 1991, Indiana University has had continuous funding and has made significant contributions to the Neonatal Research Network because of the large patient population available for studies, state-of-the-art clinical and research facilities and clinical research infrastructure, strong investigators with extensive clinical research expertise, and excellent research support staff. During the next funding cycle, Indiana University will continue to contribute a large number of subjects to all observational studies and clinical trials conducted by the Neonatal Research Network and will contribute to the scientific mission through development of innovative research protocols designed to address important clinical questions.