Research Training
The Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at McGovern Medical School is involved in various laboratory, translational, and clinical research activities in the following areas:
Areas of Ongoing Basic Research
- Surfactant protein biochemistry
- Extra-pulmonary roles of surfactant protein A
- Role of surfactant protein A in hyperoxic lung injury
- Mechanisms of meconium-induced lung injury
- Murine models of acute lung injury
- Hypoxia inducible factor regulation in ARDS
- MicroRNA in ARDS
https://med.uth.edu/pediatrics/spa/
https://med.uth.edu/pediatrics/research-our-mission/
Areas of Ongoing Clinical Research
(including NICHD Neonatal Research Network)
- Management of infants with short bowel (randomized trial)
- Hypothermia for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (randomized trials)
- Vitamin D administration in preterm infants (randomized trial)
- Education methods in the neonatal intensive care unit
- Palliative care for infants
- Phototherapy treatment in the ELBW (randomized trial)
- Early feeding in VLBW (randomized trial)
https://med.uth.edu/pediatrics/neonatology/research/lhc/studies/
The primary goal of the research component of the fellowship program is aid in the development of high-quality scholarly activity by the fellow. The program provides the fellow with guided research training and broad exposure to research experiences during the three years of fellowship. The choice of research project must be decided by the fellow with advice and approval from the Fellowship Director and the Chair of the Scholarship Oversight Committee. By the end of the first year, the fellow will have developed a research proposal. The two remaining years of fellowship will be used to execute the research proposal. Progress and review of each fellow’s research project is monitored by a Scholarship Oversight Committee at regular intervals through the three years to ensure proposal success.