Peter Anderson of the Victorian Infant Brain Studies team at Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, said: "It raises the possibility of being better able to identify children that are at high risk of later learning problems and in need of intervention.
Lead researcher Ronald Hines, a professor of paediatrics at the Children's Research Institute, part of the Medical College of Wisconsin, said: 'The dramatic changes observed in enzyme expression must be considered when examining issues of drug effectiveness and safety during early life stages.
It will collaborate with researchers from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Columbus (Ohio) Children's Research Institute, and likely conduct clinical trials in North America.
The grant entails a collaborative effort between researchers at Micronics and the Seattle Children's Research Institute (SCRI), in which a novel primer design method that enables detection of distantly related gene sequences will be used with Micronics' microfluidic molecular diagnostic test platform.
Moreno, MD, MPH, MSEd, and Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH, of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children's Research Institute, and the University of Washington.
Over the years, the CFFT TDN and Seattle Children's Research Institute have achieved significant clinical breakthroughs, and we are proud that Medidata Rave has been selected as the EDC and CDM solution that will help facilitate these cystic fibrosis studies," said Tarek Sherif, CEO of Medidata Solutions.
Jones is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Children's Research Institute at the Children's National Medical Center; Chairman of the Campaign for Public Health, an independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to increasing the budget for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of Research
The non-invasive blood-based test has been developed by doctors from the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne University and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute.
