Dr. Arnold RabsonArnold B. Rabson is Professor of Pediatrics, Pharmacology and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. After completing his M.D. at Brown University, Dr. Rabson moved to Harvard Medical School, where he pursued residency training in anatomic pathology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, including pediatric pathology at Boston Children's Hospital. Dr. Rabson was appointed Interim Director of the CHINJ and permanent Director in 2009. Under his direction, the CHINJ has established a vibrant research program and recruited outstanding scientists focused in four major research areas of inflammation, immune infectious diseases of childhood; neurodevelopment and autism; pediatric cancers and stem cells; and childhood obesity and metabolism.
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Dr. Chi-Wei LuDr. Chi-Wei Lu, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at The Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, has developed an experimental system to study the function of human placental cells using a personalized approach that converts cells derived from the blood or skin into cells representative of different stages of placental development. This cutting edge approach allows Dr. Lu and her team to test whether placental cells derive from a specific patient exhibit altered responses to stress. In particular, Dr. Lu is interested in the response of placental cells to infection and inflammation. These studies may help to define why certain pregnancies exhibit a more dramatic inflammatory response to infections or toxin exposure that may trigger premature delivery.
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Dr. Todd RosenDr. Todd Rosen, Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, and his team at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School of Rutgers University, aim to elucidate the mechanisms that drive the clock that determines the length of normal labor. Dr. Rosen takes a systematic approach to the clinical problem, studying placentas obtained after women deliver and exposing them to a variety of conditions to understand the regulation of genes and proteins which have been identified to play a role in the timing of the onset of labor. Dr. Rosen and his team have identified key mechanisms that regulates how the placenta controls the length of pregnancies recently published in the prestigious peer-reviewed scientific journal. Ultimately, Dr. Rosen hopes that research breakthroughs in understanding the placenta will reduce the number of children who have disabilities or die as a result of premature delivery.
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