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

Thanks to ground-breaking research at the Genomic Medicine Center at Children’s Mercy, new treatments provide hope to infants with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a rare cancer of the blood and bone marrow that has a very poor prognosis. Watch as baby Brisia joins just 49 other infants.
Thanks to ground-breaking research at the Genomic Medicine Center at Children’s Mercy, new treatments provide hope to infants with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a rare cancer of the blood and bone marrow that has a very poor prognosis. Watch as baby Brisia joins just 49 other infants.

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Innovative Neuroimaging Technologies Examine Pediatric Brains

Advanced Neuroimaging Lab

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Infectious Diseases Researchers Collaborate Across Children’s Mercy and Kansas City

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Dr. Alexandra Prosser-Dombrowski stands in a lab wearing a lab coat.

Emerging Principal Investigators: Dr. Alexandra Prosser-Dombrowski

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Biostatistics & Computational Biology Core Embodies Collaboration and Team Science

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