Call for Applications

The Society for Pediatric Research and the American Pediatric Society invite submissions of applications for the Multicenter Clinical Studies Program. The deadline for applications is September 17, 1999

The multicenter trial initiative is designed to promote and expedite well-controlled multicentered studies by providing seed monies and a convenient site (annual meetings of the APS, SPR and APA) for interested investigators from different centers to meet.

Projects awarded in 1999:

Characteristics of Blood Flow in Fetuses with Congenital Heart Disease: Relationship Between Fetal "Brain Sparing" and Neonatal Neurologic Outcome

Principal Investigator: Mary T. Donofrio, M.D.; The Medical College of Virginia Hospital, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Moderate Hypothermia In the Treatment of Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy

Principal Investigator: Dorothea Eicher, M.D.; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN