Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, in conjunction with Emory University School of Medicine, is committed to excellence and innovation in laboratory and clinical research. Areas of interest include:
- Acute liver failure
- Neonatal hemochromatosis
- Portal hypertension
- Hepatopulmonary syndrome
- Post-transplant medical issues
- Nutritional outcomes of liver transplant
- Fatty liver disease
- Transplant rejection and immunologic tolerance
- Protein genomic research
- Noninvasive diagnosis of liver disease using MRI
- The Living Donor Education and Access Program (Project LEAP)
In addition, we collaborate with other centers across the country to further our research efforts and innovation for children with liver disease. We are involved in:
- Childhood Liver Disease Research and Education Network (ChiLDREN), an NIH-sponsored collaborative network organized to study rare childhood liver diseases
- Pediatric Acute Liver Failure (PALF), a multicenter, national collaborative effort to help identify, characterize and develop management strategies for children who present with acute liver failure
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Study of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT), a cooperative effort among leading pediatric transplant centers in the U.S. and Canada to advance the science of pediatric liver transplant