Advancing Care for Newborns
As national leaders in neonatal care, researchers in the Division of Neonatology at Cincinnati Children’s have been pioneering advancements in care for newborns for decades.
As part of the Perinatal Institute, we work directly with Pulmonary Biology and collaborate with numerous clinical divisions to share findings and improve outcomes. Our Neonatology Clinical Research Core allows us to centralize protocols and navigate research across all delivery hospitals in the Greater Cincinnati area. By coordinating efforts and fostering these multidisciplinary collaborations, we continue to advance our knowledge and develop groundbreaking therapies to help infants thrive.
Our team of researchers consists of scientists, neonatologists, immunologists, pulmonologists, biologists, neurologists, radiologists, informatics experts and data analysts. Together, we study a broad range of topics—from organ development to early prediction of neurodevelopmental disabilities in preterm infants to how environmental stimuli impact metabolism, growth and development in the NICU and beyond to neonatal health inequities and ways of increasing access to care.
Our diverse backgrounds and skill sets give us a comprehensive understanding of varied topics with a singular focus: to improve care for all newborns.
Our Research
Through a combination of basic, clinical, translational and community-based research, we’re improving care and outcomes for neonates.
We employ state-of-the-art techniques, technology and infrastructure to study causes, predict outcomes and translate findings from bench to bedside. As a national referral site, we work on the most complex cases and rarest conditions, giving us access to unique data to inform our research. As a national informatics hub—partnering with the Children’s Hospital Neonatal Consortium (CHNC), Neonatal Research Network (NRN) and Maternal/Infant Data Hub—we are the largest cohort of diverse data, including preterm neuroimaging information used in early prediction studies.
While our research topics are vast, we focus on four primary areas of study:
- Pulmonary biology research
- Developmental biology research
- Clinical investigations
- Neonatal epidemiology, clinical effectiveness and community health
