Children’s Mercy Research Institute: News and Stories

We make great strides every day on our mission of improving the health and well-being of children through state-of-the-art translational research. Here you can find the latest news and feature stories on the groundbreaking work of Children’s Mercy Research Institute investigators and research teams, and how their discoveries and work are changing the future of pediatric medicine.

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News from Children's Mercy Research Institute

Dr. Perry Receives Grant from ESPN-founded Organization to Better Target Chemoresistant Cells

November 10, 2020

Dr. Staggs Named Inaugural Director of the Biostatistics and Epidemiology Core (BEC)

October 14, 2020

Dr. Wagner Receives Thrasher Research Fund Grant to Study How Liver Fat Affects Liver Drug Transport and Cholesterol Regulation

September 29, 2020

Dr. Elin Grundberg Receives $3.2 Million NIH Grant to Study Social Stress, (Epi)genetics and Their Link to Viral Infection and Asthma

September 3, 2020

Dr. Keith Feldman Receives Frontiers Grant to Develop Computational Framework to Improve Subject Matching in Retrospective Study Designs

August 24, 2020

Drs. Lewis and Truog Receive R21 Grant to Study Steroid Treatment Response in Infants with BPD

August 21, 2020

Children's Mercy Research Institute Set to Open in Spring 2021

August 07, 2020

Dr. Natalie Jayaram Awarded Grant to Study Characteristics for Congenital Heart Surgery Between Centers That Do and Do Not Publicly Report Outcomes

July 30, 2020

Dr. Alain Cuna Awarded Grant from NIDDK to Study Inflammatory Bowel Disease NEC

July 22, 2020

Five Investigators Receive Supplemental Funding for COVID-19 Research

June 17, 2020

Dr. Elin Grundberg Receives Funding to Explore Why and How Age Affects Symptoms of Those Infected with COVID-19

June 10, 2020

Dr. Bridgette Jones Receives $2.4 Million NIH Grant for Asthma Treatment Research

June 5, 2020

Our latest discoveries and stories

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Research Affirms Value of Integrated Behavioral Health Care for Underserved Children

Learn about this research on integrated behavioral health care

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CODIEFY Study to Offer Kid-focused COVID-19 Clarity

Learn about this CODIEFY study

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Predicting Treatment Response in Children with Asthma

Learn about predicting treatment response

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HITS 2.0: Kansas City-based Research Team Curbing HIV Mother-To-Child Transmission

Learn about HITS 2.0

CKiD – An International Resource For Understanding Chronic Kidney Disease In Children

Learn about CKiD

Children’s Mercy Develops New Tool to Help Combat Malnutrition

Learn about the new tool

Why Research Matters

“Research matters because patients deserve better than a trial and error approach to mental health treatment. My work focuses on understanding how individual differences in genetics, age and other areas impact how drugs work in the body. The goal is to become more precise when we prescribe medications, or in other words, to get it right the first time.”

Stephani Stancil, PhD, APRN
Divisions of Adolescent Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology

Our Latest Research Discoveries, News and Stories